Bug 693871 - The backend exited unexpectedly.
Summary: The backend exited unexpectedly.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: PackageKit
Version: 14
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
unspecified
unspecified
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-04-05 19:21 UTC by Ryan
Modified: 2012-08-16 15:17 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-08-16 15:17:44 UTC
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Description Ryan 2011-04-05 19:21:31 UTC
#Description of problem:
While automatically Updating Fedora 14, something crashed, and I believe it was PackageKit, unless it was gnome-packagekit. 

#Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
PackageKit-0.6.12-2.fc14 (i686)

#How reproducible:
only happened today. it didn't happen any time before today.

#Steps to Reproduce:
1. add Adobe stable repo
2. add rpmFusion Free stable repo
3. add rpmFusion nonFree stable repo
4. try to cancel autoupdate once
5. restart computer
6. try updating repos
7. autoupdate starts
8. autoupdate crashes
  
#Actual results:
autoupdate crashes and leaves a slew of error notification windows (it showed 4 of them, in my case) with the error message reproduced below in the "Additional info" section.

#Expected results:
updates in background and doesn't exit unexpectedly.

#Additional info:
autoupdate with default repos, rpmfusion free + nonfree, and adobe repos installed, as far as I know, since this is what changed most recently pertaining to overall package stability; i have installed some other packages and apps, but I don't think installing those caused the problem. I did, however, interrupt an autoupdate so I could install Openoffice.org, and then restarted my computer and then refreshed the repos, which alerted autoupdate to run again, only this time, it crashed.

Message Window text:
"An internal system error has occurred

A problem that we were not expecting has occurred.
Please report this bug in your distribution bugtracker with the error description."

Error description inside the text box:
"The backend exited unexpectedly. This is a serious error as the spawned backend did not complete the pending transaction."

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2011-04-06 08:31:42 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Error description inside the text box:
> "The backend exited unexpectedly. This is a serious error as the spawned
> backend did not complete the pending transaction."

i.e., yum crashed

Does yum work normally on the command line? Are you able to reproduce this again?

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