Bugzilla – Bug 796118
KDE Apper does not show patch details after a while (packagekitd restart)
Last modified: 2015-11-06 23:44:32 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 When clicking a patch in the apper main list detail information belonging to the patch is displayed in the lower half of the apper window. This works fine as long as you click a new line in the list frequently. If you make a break before clicking the next line (less than a minute is enough) the details are no longer displayed when clicking a new line. Restarting apper helps, I have not found another solution. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Patches must be available for installation (I have not tested with updates) 2. Click the "Updates available" icon in the status area (or start apper --updates from a shell) 3. click on some patches 4. make a small break (less than a minute is enough) 5. click on some other patches Actual Results: 1. "updates available" icon displayed in the status area 2. apper window opens 3. Further details about the patch are displayed in the lower half of the Apper window 4. Nothing happens 5. Details are no longer displayed in the lower half Expected Results: 1. - 4. work as expected 5. Further details about the patch should be displayed in the lower half of the Apper window When running statement... $ while true; do ps -ef | grep packagekitd | grep -v grep; date; usleep 500000 ; done ... in a shell while testing the steps above you can see - packagekitd running during steps 2 & 3 - packagekitd exits during step 4 (probably a timeout as by design) - packagekitd is restarted during step 5 (but it appears that the information is not transmitted successfully from the restarted process) I tried to check whether this bug has been reported or fixed upstream to no avail. While people seem to report Apper bugs to https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=apper, I could not see any sign that anybody works on these reports. There seem to be 2 current source code repos for Apper (I did not check programmatically whether they are really 100% identical) 1. bzr branch lp:apper 2. git git://anongit.kde.org/apper The code is being actively developed, but I could not spot a log message addressing the problem here.
12.2 has discontinued. Feel free to reopen if bug still applies for a >13.1 product.
Actually this is a duplicate. And yes, it still exists in >13.1... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 855993 ***