Bug 441953

Summary:	openSUSE updater fails to work if all updates are selected
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	pa ju <audi_s4>
Component:	Update Problems	Assignee:	Thomas Göttlicher <tgoettlicher>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	maint-coord, suse-beta
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Description pa ju 2008-11-05 18:31:17 UTC

In case there are more than around 30 updates/patches and all of them are selected the updater fails completely. Claims about not getting response from daemon (iirc). If updates are selected manually and limited <30 it works fine unless there are updates which dependencies needs to be solved manually (see other report about enhancing the tool).

Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2008-11-07 05:10:51 UTC

Please attach /var/log/pk_backend_zypp right after a failure.

Comment 2 pa ju 2008-11-09 16:52:45 UTC

Required file does not exist. Not before the error dialog saying:

kdesu(26148)/kdsu (kdelibs) KDEsu::KDEsuClient::command:[/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kdelibs-4.1.3/kdesu/client.cpp: 196] no reply from daemon.

or after the dialog.

Comment 3 Christian Boltz 2008-11-09 21:18:36 UTC

I'm quite sure that on 11.0 these things are in /var/log/zypper.log.

(And I'm also quite sure that this is a known problem on 11.0 - unfortunately I don't remember the bug number.)

Comment 4 pa ju 2008-11-10 21:51:42 UTC

/var/log/zypper.log gets plenty of log info when doing updates. But unfortunately nothing comes to log when it fails to get response from daemon. Only dialog.

Comment 5 Christian Boltz 2008-11-10 23:50:03 UTC

(In reply to comment #4 from pa ju)
> /var/log/zypper.log gets plenty of log info when doing updates. But
> unfortunately nothing comes to log when it fails to get response from daemon.
> Only dialog.

Ah, now I remember: The problem is that kdesu fails if the commandline has more than 950 chars. See bug 414284 for details. (Workaround: Use YaST if you want to update lots of packages.)

@Thomas: Is your comment in bug 414284 that there won't be an online update for 11.0 still valid? If so, then close this bug as duplicate.

Comment 6 Thomas Göttlicher 2008-11-11 07:11:20 UTC

(In reply to comment #5 from Christian Boltz)
> Ah, now I remember: The problem is that kdesu fails if the commandline has more
> than 950 chars. See bug 414284 for details. (Workaround: Use YaST if you want
> to update lots of packages.)

> @Thomas: Is your comment in bug 414284 that there won't be an online update for
> 11.0 still valid? If so, then close this bug as duplicate.
Christian, you are right. This is a duplicate of #414284.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 414284 ***