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The daemon crashes mid-transaction if filename does not end with .click

Bug #1205346 reported by Alejandro J. Cura
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click (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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packagekit (Ubuntu)
Triaged
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Bug Description

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ pkcon -p install-local /home/phablet/.local/share/download_manager/{182577ab-0e3f-491f-b731-555cfb33b851}/com.ubuntu.ubuntu-clock-0.5
Transaction: Simulating install
Status: Waiting in queue
Status: Starting
Status: Loading cache
Percentage: 0
Percentage: 100
Percentage: 0
Percentage: 50
Percentage: 100
Status: Querying
The daemon crashed mid-transaction!
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$

Related branches

lp://staging/click
Colin Watson (community): Approve
Ubuntu CI managed package branches: Pending requested
Diff: 485 lines (+269/-70)
11 files modified
README (+1/-0)
click/build.py (+10/-22)
click/framework.py (+138/-0)
click/install.py (+8/-28)
click/paths.py.in (+1/-0)
click/tests/helpers.py (+29/-0)
click/tests/test_build.py (+39/-5)
click/tests/test_install.py (+2/-4)
debian/changelog (+8/-0)
doc/file-format.rst (+1/-2)
doc/index.rst (+32/-9)
lp://staging/ubuntu/saucy-proposed/click
lp://staging/~ubuntu-managed-branches/click/click (Merged)
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Probably because the MIME type doesn't match, but it should still at least fail properly rather than crashing.

Changed in click:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Colin Watson (cjwatson)
affects: click → click (Ubuntu)
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

The crash is in packagekit's aptcc backend, and this patch will fix it:

  http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/packagekit/2013-August/026149.html

I don't think there's a rush to backport that; I've added more reliable MIME type detection for click 0.3.0, which should mean that in practice this doesn't happen.

Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
Changed in click (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package click - 0.3.0

---------------
click (0.3.0) saucy; urgency=low

  * Insert a new "_click-binary" ar member immediately after
    "debian-binary"; this allows detecting the MIME type of a Click package
    even when it doesn't have the extension ".click" (LP: #1205346).
  * Declare the application/x-click MIME type, since the shared-mime-info
    upstream would rather not take the patch there at this point
    (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66689).
  * Make removal of old links for single-version hooks work even when the
    application ID is not a prefix of the pattern's basename.
  * Add an optional Hook-Name field to hook files, thereby allowing multiple
    hooks to attach to the same virtual name.
  * Rename click's own "desktop" hook to "click-desktop", making use of the
    new Hook-Name facility.
 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:08:46 +0100

Changed in click (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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