Bug 447347

Created attachment 305972 [details]
bug report generated by crash dialog

Is this reproducable? What's the output of "gpk-update-viewer --verbose" when
this happens? Thanks.

Created attachment 306323 [details]
output from gpk-update-viewer --verbose

Yes, I did a brand new fresh install of Fedora 9 (using Live media
incidentally, but it doesn't matter), enabled the updates-testing repo, then
did the steps above except running gpk-update-viewer manually as suggested. 
Different system, same crash.

Here is the output.

Created attachment 306324 [details]
bug report generated by crash dialog

Latest bug report output from this attempt.

Hmm, thanks for your logs. I can't reproduce, but then I can't access the yum
update. Could you please:

1. install the gnome-packagekit-debuginfo package
2. type: 

gdb /usr/bin/gpk-update-viewer
run --verbose

and navigate to the yum entry to make it crash. When it crashes, please type:

bt

into the console and attach the output here. Thanks!

Richard.

Created attachment 306397 [details]
gdb backtrace

output from run through gdb with debuginfos installed

Cheers for the dump, that's exactly what I needed to see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446248;yum doesn't tolerate broken
mirrorlist in cache;
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446186;broken comps.xml; language
support was not installed;
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=261961;Yum does not like non-ascii
package names;
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442232;yum doesn't try other mirrors
after hitting ctrnl-c;
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442819;Yum crash when metadata
doesn't match checksum, and there's no other mirrors to try

You'll notice the delimiter in the list is a ';', and string "broken comps.xml;
language support was not installed" conatins an "extra" delimiter.

Of course, the bug is that PackageKit does not pass back an 'as' structure, but
instead a delimited 's' entry, but that's on the list of things to change when
we next break API again (not anytime soon).

If you open /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py (as root) and then
search for "urls[typ].append" you'll find this block of code:

                for ref in refs:
                    typ = ref['type']
                    href = ref['href']
                    title = ref['title'] or ""
                    if href:
                        if typ in ('bugzilla','cve'):
                            urls[typ].append("%s;%s" % (href,title))
                        else:
                            urls['vendor'].append("%s;%s" % (href,title))

Can you try changing it to:

                for ref in refs:
                    typ = ref['type']
                    href = ref['href']
                    title = ref['title'].replace(";","") or ""
                    if href:
                        if typ in ('bugzilla','cve'):
                            urls[typ].append("%s;%s" % (href,title))
                        else:
                            urls['vendor'].append("%s;%s" % (href,title))

i.e. you need to add .replace(";","") to one of the lines.

And then save the file. Then try looking at the yum update and checking for the
crash.

If this works, I'll push a PackageKit update into updates testing. Many thanks.

You might have to do:

                    title = ref['title'] or ""
                    title = title.replace(";","")

I'm not a python legend.

The first fix in Comment #7 worked fine.  I might suggest replacing with a
different character such as "," or ":" though, since losing the ; could change
the meaning of the text too much.

PackageKit-0.1.12-13.20080522.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9

PackageKit-0.1.12-13.20080522.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update PackageKit'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-4646

*** Bug 448961 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 449093 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

PackageKit-0.1.12-13.20080522.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

*** Bug 448047 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Regarding comment #11, please see attachment #309360 [details], which I submitted to bug
#448047, before marking the latter as a duplicate of this one.