[Bug 902783] Re: "Find Best Server" causes Software Sources to hang

[Lyle Waldman]

Reinstalled the package.  Bug is still persistent.  Here's some more
info for you:

I ran the "check for best server" while I was running System Monitor to
get an idea of what was going on.  As the check ran, I saw the system
opening a whole bunch of sh sessions with PIDs in the upper 2000s or low
3000s.  One by one, they all went from "Sleeping" to "Zombie", and when
they were all Zombies, that's when the test hung, at around 50%
completion.  Then I went to close Software Sources, and it hung, at
which point I did Force Quit, and then I still had a process called
software-properties-gtk open on the system, although it didn't have the
special icon that "Software Sources" has.

Upon re-running the test from the beginning, at the end I had 2 of these
software-properties-gtk processes running, so it seems that they
propagate each time the test is run.

Does this help at all?

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Title:
  "Find Best Server" causes Software Sources to hang

Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Steps to reproduce:

  1) Go into System Settings
  2) Software Sources
  3) Under the "Download From" dropbox, select "Other..."
  4) Click "Select Best Server"
  5) Search test will hang at about 50% completion (reproducible 100% for me)
  6) Cancel the search.
  7) Attempt to close Software Sources.  This will cause Software Sources to hang, requiring a Force Quit.

  This bug is reproducible 100% under Ubuntu 11.10, all updates
  installed as of Dec. 11/2011.

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