Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 35774
gnorpm goes in an infinite loop in the install dialog
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:38 EDT
Gnorpm goes in an infinite loop in the install dialog. It's a local install, no network involved. He displays all found packages in the known way (tree), but he displays all packages infinite times and doesn't stop. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start gnorpm 2. push the install button Actual Results: infinite loop Expected Results: normal display of all found packages
Which version and what CD is mounted ?
I'm having the same problem, using gnorpm-0.95.1.6.7x.. Hitting install does the same thing whether I'm looking to add RPMs from a CD or just from the hard drive.
Can you hum a few notes about how to reproduce the problem? What packages you're trying to install and the steps necessary to reproduce what be nice ...
I start GnoRPM and enter the password to su for root priveleges. Gno-RPM loads and I click "Install". The Install screen comes up and gives the normal tree diagram of programs to install (from the basic CD that my version of red hat 7.0 came on, for example...although it does the same thing even if no CD is mounted). The problem is that it keeps listing these RPMs over and over (i let it run for a few hours one time just to see...all it did was eat system resources and keep listing the RPMs over and over again). Even if no CD is mounted, it does the same thing...it was giving me a list that just contained Packages/Development/Libraries/python-xmlrpc-1.2.1-1 and Packages/System Environment/Base/up2date-2.1.7-1 and up2date-gnome-2.1.7-1 in the default light grey for Older Colour Packages. The filter Install is using is "All but installed packages"... I can't change it until it finishes finding packages, which it never does. When a Cd is mounted it seems to loop it's findings of all the packages on the CD. Anything else? -M
Here's how to fix the problem: Go to the Operations/Preferences menu of gnoRPM. Switch to the Install Window tab. Edit the RPM directories at the bottom to just reflect the location of the RPMs you want to install (in our case it would have been /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS, and /mnt/cdrom/SRPMS if you want the source code). Click Apply, then Ok. Now when you click the install button, it should work fine.
The problem seems to be the addition of the user's home directory to the Install Window list. If this directory is listed, gnoRPM goes into the infinite loop.
In order to get the developers and maintainers of GnoRPM to look at this bug I have moved it to the GnoRPM category in the Gnome bug tracker. It can be found at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58459, where you can add yourself to the cc-field if you want to recieve information about changes to the bug tatus.