[Bug 1076832] Re: "Additional drivers" tab doesn't work when Software Sources was launched by synaptic
Matthew Paul Thomas
mpt at canonical.com
Thu Nov 15 10:36:12 UTC 2012
This is similar to bug 1058070. It might be reasonable for Synaptic to
make Software Sources modal to it, if it was the only access point for
Software Sources. But it is not. It has to be able to handle people
making changes in Software Sources when that is opened from Ubuntu
Software Center, Software Updater, or System Settings. In the same way,
it should handle people making changes even when Software Sources is
launched from Synaptic itself.
Separately, Software Sources should explain that it can't make changes
when *anything* has locked apt, not just Synaptic.
** Also affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
"Additional drivers" tab doesn't work when Software Sources was
launched by synaptic
Status in “software-properties” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “synaptic” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
To reproduce:
1. Install synaptic and run it
2. Click Settings->repositories
3. Click "Additional software" tab
4. Attempt to change to a different driver.
Expected result: The driver gets installed.
Actual result: Operation never completes.
Analysis: This happens because Software Sources is waiting on Synaptic
to exit before performing apt commands. But Synaptic is itself waiting
on Software Sources to exit, and you can't close Synaptic before this
happens because it's UI is disabled.
There is no message telling the user that this is what has happened,
so just as with the automatic U1 installer, the user does not know
they need to close other package managers before the process will
complete. So they are just left waiting forever. Of course in this
case it is impossible for the user to unlock the package db without
closing everything down and starting over.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: software-properties-gtk 0.92.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 9 01:59:30 2012
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-08 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: software-properties
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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