Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 461068
Bad error dialog
Last modified: 2008-09-18 06:49:16 EDT
There's a dialog in PackageKit which pops up if PK cannot fetch update lists: ------------------------------------------ [ ] PackageKit Update Applet [x] ------------------------------------------ Getting update lists failed Failed to get updates > More details [ OK ] ------------------------------------------ 1.) The dialog should not include branding names like "PackageKit" and also probably not reference applet. No big deal as the HIG asks not to use window titles for this kind of window anyway. 2.) The headline and the main dialog text are basicly the same?
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I've removed the "PackageKit" branding in commit 55eb7657ec1ccf1d4f5b5ffc9b1c61ed050955af -- I'll fix the rubbish error reporting in a minute.
That method really shouldn't have failed like that -- what's the message in the "more details" box please? Thanks.
"failed to get a TID: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1" PK version is 0.3.1 btw.
Okay, there are three errors here: 1. The daemon failed to start 2. The libpackagekit library didn't recognise the error code 3. The GpkClient session code didn't have a good translation for the code Addressing these my end: 2: commit 3cc92e5665d57f6e597580506ef3bb501aa2cf8b Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> Date: Wed Sep 17 14:33:24 2008 +0100 bugfix: when we can't start the dameon from a DBUS method, emit a proper error code rather than just 'failed' :100644 100644 cc710d6... 284be12... M libpackagekit/pk-client.c :100644 100644 84f1337... c53e33b... M libpackagekit/pk-client.h :100644 100644 df64249... 366a0e3... M libpackagekit/pk-control.c :100644 100644 1d46e41... f2fd0c0... M libpackagekit/pk-control.h 3: commit 4542d787232df61abafcd687ae03fdd88d87c48a Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> Date: Wed Sep 17 14:53:18 2008 +0100 bugfix: use the new CANNOT_START_DAEMON error code to display a more useful message to the user and for 1:, I need to know what happens when you (as root) type this: /usr/sbin/packagekitd -v Thanks.
I get a "failed to cache rpm database (1)" error. I don't think it's worth to look into this any further as the system seems to be horribly broken (it's a test vm tracking the unstable distribution after all). I will install a new VM when the next alpha (beta?) is out, I'm sure the error will be gone then.
That means you've got a very broken rpmdb -- you can try to --rebuilddb if you are feeling lucky, but the system looks pretty hosed. I'll close this bug, but please re-open if you can reproduce. Thanks for all your help.