Bug 78851 – update agent hangs and can not be closed

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Bug 78851 - update agent hangs and can not be closed

Summary:	update agent hangs and can not be closed

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	up2date (Show other bugs)
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Version:	4.0
Hardware:	athlon Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Adrian Likins
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Reported:	2002-12-01 23:33 EST by Need Real Name
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:07 EST (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-09-02 15:18:35 EDT
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Description Need Real Name 2002-12-01 23:33:12 EST

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Description of problem:
when i do an update the update agent works fine UNLESS i loose my dialup
connection.  if the connection is lost during the update the agent hangs 
forever.  all attemps to close the window fails with the exception of "killall
up2date" from the command line.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start the update
2. while downloading the package update, disconnect the network connection.
3.
	

Actual Results:  window hang forever unless you logoff.

Expected Results:  should get error message saying lost connection, please close
and start over.  

Additional info:

standard out of the box agent for redhat8.0

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