To reproduce was on a live session of lubuntu yakkety yak. I opened the additonal drivers tab of software and updates and installed bcmwl kernel source so I could remove my bulky usb one for the rest of the live session then apport appeared saying packegkit has crashed.
Description: Ubuntu Yakkety Yak (development branch)
Release: 16.10
packagekit:
Installed: 0.8.17-4ubuntu6~gcc5.4ubuntu2
Candidate: 0.8.17-4ubuntu6~gcc5.4ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 0.8.17-4ubuntu6~gcc5.4ubuntu2 500
500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
I expected the driver to install with nothing crashing. Instead this had a crash and apport came up.
ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: packagekit 0.8.17-4ubuntu6~gcc5.4ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-34.53-generic 4.4.15
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-34-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.376
Date: Sat Aug 13 18:44:13 2016
ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
LiveMediaBuild: Lubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Alpha amd64 (20160813)
ProcCmdline: /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/sh
SegvAnalysis: Skipped: missing required field "Disassembly"
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: packagekit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups:
StacktraceTop:
__cxxabiv1:
pkgSystem:
APT::Configura
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