Bug#361805: bug-buddy: fails to update bug information and crashes afterwards

Dirk De Groote dirk.degroote at chello.be
Wed Apr 12 00:23:38 UTC 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 16:53 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 02:42:31PM +0200, Dirk De Groote wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 20:05 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > severity 361805 important
> > > thanks
> 
> > > On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 02:38:46PM +0200, Dirk De Groote wrote:
> > > > Package: bug-buddy
> > > > Version: 2.8.0-3
> > > > Severity: grave
> > > > Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> > > > tested on 2 computers, with same result : lauching "bug-buddy" proposes
> > > > you to update your bug-information. Clicking "update" starts downloading
> > > > 6 (4 on the other box) updates. Then an error message appears :
> > > > "application has quit unexpectedly" and you get 3 options : "restart
> > > > app", "close" or "inform developpers" ( the latter being impossible
> > > > since that one tries to launch "bug-buddy" ...). Selecting "restart"
> > > > puts you back in the "update" loop , this time only requiering 2 updates
> > > > , but those never succeed ... same loop all over : crash --> restart -->
> > > > update --> crash --> restart ... etc.
> 
> > > So click the "don't update" button instead?
> 
> > > I'm not sure why this functionality is enabled at all in the Debian package
> > > of bug-buddy, since updates should happen through the Debian package system
> > > and *not* by pulling updates from third-party websites; but in any case, you
> > > don't have to agree to update in order to use bug-buddy, so I don't think
> > > this warrants a grave severity.
> 
> > Thanks for your reply, I agree, severity shouldn't be "important" , but
> > that what the "report-bug" tool assigns automatically when the package
> > itself becomes unusable. It does not affect any functionality of other
> > packages on the system whatsoever, true.
> > The "don't update" suggestion above however has no effect and crashes
> > "bug-buddy" in the same way.
> 
> Hrm, this is bad; the bug-buddy package shouldn't let itself get into such
> an unusable state.  Probably still not severity: grave, but I do hope this
> gets fixed for etch.
> 
> Does apt-get install --reinstall bug-buddy fix this problem for you?
> 

Tried apt-get remove --purge and reinstalled, but nothing changes, due
to dependencies, apt-get remove bug-buddy, also removes :

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  bug-buddy gnome gnome-core gnome-desktop-environment gnome-office

but it doesn't break down anything if you proceed with it and reinstall
bb afterwards, so that's the good part. BB's behavior remains unchanged
wether you execute bb as root or normal user, no difference. Hope this
helps.








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