Bug 389361 - Synaptic crashes when attempting to set preferences
Summary: Synaptic crashes when attempting to set preferences
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: synaptic
Version: 8
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Axel Thimm
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-18 14:24 UTC by Tom
Modified: 2007-12-06 20:51 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 0.5.15lorg3.93-4.fc8
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-12-06 20:51:29 UTC
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Description Tom 2007-11-18 14:24:36 UTC 
Description of problem:
Synaptic crashes when attempting to set preferences

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.57.2-13.fc8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Execute Synaptic
2. Click Settings->Preferences
3.
  
Actual results: Crash followed by:
synaptic: rpm/rpmindexfile.cc:639: std::string
rpmRepomdIndex::IndexURI(std::string) const: Assertion `Res.size() > 0' failed.

Expected results:
Preferences dialog displayed

Additional info:
Comment 1 Panu Matilainen 2007-11-19 07:19:46 UTC 
Yeah, easily reproduced, repomd support in apt acting up in some cases where
repomd.xml isn't available locally.

Fixed in rawhide now, F8 update to follow...
Comment 2 Tom 2007-11-19 14:17:17 UTC 
kudos
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2007-11-22 03:30:59 UTC 
apt-0.5.15lorg3.93-4.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 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 apt'
Comment 4 Tom 2007-11-24 14:14:16 UTC 
apt-0.5.15lorg3.93-4.fc8 seems to fix the preferences bug
Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2007-12-06 20:51:27 UTC 
apt-0.5.15lorg3.93-4.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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