Bug 428548 - Package Updater window becomes unresponsive very often
Summary: Package Updater window becomes unresponsive very often
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pirut
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-01-13 04:05 UTC by Praveen A
Modified: 2008-05-28 19:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-05-28 19:00:32 UTC
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screenshot of unresponsive package updater windows (579.48 KB, image/png)
2008-01-13 04:05 UTC, Praveen A
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Description Praveen A 2008-01-13 04:05:23 UTC
Description of problem:

Package updater window become unresponsive very often which makes tracking of
the update progress impossible.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:

When there is a lot of updates available

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run package updater
2. Move on to other windows
3. Come back to package updater window
  
Actual results:

It does not respond (see attached screenshot)
Expected results:
Progress of update

Additional info:

Is it running with a low priority? I have noticed the same behaviour in two
notebooks.

Comment 1 Praveen A 2008-01-13 04:05:23 UTC
Created attachment 291487 [details]
screenshot of unresponsive package updater windows

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2008-05-28 19:00:32 UTC
This is because we don't run with threads (because threads + rpmdb access has
some significant downsides and risks of corruption).  gnome-packagekit in Fedora
9 works around this differently.  Not relaly going to make any pirut changes at
this point for it


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