Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 130844
up2date loops forever when adding 3 updates to 159
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:47 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040809 Description of problem: Up2date will loop endlessly trying to add new updates to resolve dependencies or resolve conflicts. It keeps thinking that it has to add the same handful of packages over and over and over. I wonder if up2date intends to add the packages but isn't able to add them. Or maybe up2date just loses its little mind because there are so many updates -- my system has 159 updates, and up2date tries to add 3 more. Workaround: Don't move your arm like that. Er, I mean select fewer packages. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-4.3.24-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. In the kicker panel, click the red RHN "!" icon. Note the tooltip saying that 159 updates are available. 2. In the Notification Tool popup, click "Launch up2date". 3. Type root's password when asked for it. 4. In the Update Agent window, click Forward, then Forward again (past the checked fedora-core-rawhide channel). 5. In the newly-renamed Up2date - Skipped Packages window, click Forward past the skipped packages (kernel and kernel-utils). AN EXTRA COSMETIC BUG: In the Skipped Packages window, the last line of the paragraph under the Package Information box (the phrase "select its checkbox") is cut in half. Only the top half of the letters is visible. This is with the default fonts on a 1024x768 screen. 6. In the Available Package Updates window, click the checkbox to "Select all packages". (Total size of selected packages to download = 153 kB.) 7. Click Forward to get the packages. 8. In the Warning popup (about "Test install failed because of package conflicts" and "The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies"), click OK. 9. Back in the Up2date - Package List window, click Forward. Actual Results: After the package set is tested and RPM inter-dependencies are solved, the same dialog box mentioned in step 8 pops up. Click OK and then Forward (step 9) and the dialog box will reappear again. Do the same thing 5 times and you get the same loop 5 times. Expected Results: After giving the Warning dialog and adding additional packages, up2date should (after I click Forward) download those packages and install them. If I'm not supposed to be able to go forward (because my updates still have unresolved conflicts or for whatever reason), the Forward button should be unselectable/grayed-out. In that case I'd hope to see a dialog box pop up to suggest a workaround, like "Select fewer packages at a time". Additional info: Up2date's warning dialog box from step 8 (on my system tonight) reads: Test install failed because of package conflicts: The following packages were added to your selection to satisfy dependencies: Name Version Release -------------------------------------------------------------- libstdc++-devel 3.4.1 9 rpm-libs 4.3.2 0.10 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs 6.7.99.902 4 file /usr/share/man/man5/resolver.5.gz conflicts between attempted installs of man-pages-1.67-2 and bind-utils-9.2.4-EL4_1
Fedora Core 3 is now maintained by the Fedora Legacy project for security updates only. If this problem is a security issue, please reopen and reassign to the Fedora Legacy product. If it is not a security issue and hasn't been resolved in the current FC5 updates or in the FC6 test release, reopen and change the version to match. Thank you!
Closing per lack of response to previous comment. If this still occurs on FC3 or FC4 and is a security issue, please assign to Fedora Legacy and the appropriate version. The bug could also be filed against RHEL if it is relevant there. up2date has been replaced by pirut and pup in FC5 and FC6, the still fully supported versions of Fedora Core, so this bug will not be fixed unless it is a security issue.