Bug 468486

Summary:	internal system error: Interrupted system call
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Charles R. Anderson <cra>
Component:	PackageKit	Assignee:	Robin Norwood <robin.norwood>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	lmacken, rhughes, richard, robin.norwood, tuxbrewr
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Description Charles R. Anderson 2008-10-25 03:46:22 UTC

Description of problem:

PackageKit crashed while browsing through the list of packages from a search result.  I'm testing with F10 Snap3 LiveCD + updated yum and PackageKit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
PackageKit-0.3.8-3.fc10.x86_64
PackageKit-glib-0.3.8-3.fc10.x86_64
PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.3.8-3.fc10.x86_64
PackageKit-udev-helper-0.3.8-3.fc10.x86_64
PackageKit-yum-0.3.8-3.fc10.x86_64
PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.3.8-3.fc10.x86_64
yum-3.2.19-6.fc10.noarch
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-10.fc10.x86_64
yum-utils-1.1.17-1.fc10.noarch


How reproducible:
didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. type a keyword, then click Find
2. click on a package in the search results
3. up/down arrow quickly through the list
  
Actual results:

An Internal system error occurred

A problem that we were not expecting has occurred.
Please report this bug at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ with the error description.

More details:

Error Type: <type 'exceptions.IOError'>
Error Value: [Errno 4] Interrupted system call
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2150, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 2147, in main
    backend.dispatcher(sys.argv[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 601, in dispatcher
    line = sys.stdin.readline().strip('\n')

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2008-10-26 10:29:00 UTC

I've fixed this upstream:

commit 04687ef8ac892ee73f0f65a9a1a86602b214c8f9
Author: Richard Hughes <richard>
Date:   Sun Oct 26 10:27:50 2008 +0000

    bugfix: catch exceptions from sys.stdin.readline to fix rh#468486