Bug 20332
| Summary: | up2date dies on download errors | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | David Woodhouse <dwmw2> |
| Component: | up2date | Assignee: | Preston Brown <pbrown> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Aaron Brown <abrown> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-11-04 14:06:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18994 *** This doesn't look like a duplicate of 18994. This appears to be caused by an aborted download of the package and a subsequent failure to read the RPM headers of the new package, rather than a failure to grok the system's RPM database. The other part: "just dies horribly without bringing up a dialog box to complain and you don't notice for hours because you've come to _expect_ it not to redraw itself for ages anyway" is the same though. |
This failure mode appears to have been triggered by a failure to download the complete file for a glibc update. Bringing up a window to complain about it would be preferable. Actually, I didn't notice this in the terminal from which up2date was started for some time - because I've got used to the fact that it just sits there and fails to even redraw its windows while it's doing something else. That is also a severe defect in its functionality, IMO. imladris /home/dwmw2 # up2date Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date/gui.py", line 356, in doRetrieval res = up2date.hasBadSignature(self.selectedPkgList[index]) File "/usr/share/rhn/up2date/up2date.py", line 806, in hasBadSignature hdr = rpm.headerFromPackage(fd)[0] rpm.error: error reading package