[KDE] upgrade tool crashed in Gutsy Tribe 3

[Marco Maini]

Binary package hint: update-manager

I have tried to upgrade from Tribe 3 to Tribe 4.
This is the output in Konsole when I type the command:

maini@maini-desktop:~$ sudo adept_manager --dist-upgrade-devel
[sudo] password for maini:
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171
  Major opcode: 148
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171
  Major opcode: 148
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failed to open device
UpgradeWizard::checkForDistUpgrade
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-maini" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/tmp/kde-maini" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
kapture::PkgSystem::PkgSystem()
Error: "/tmp/ksocket-maini" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-maini" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
hdate-applet
kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: _attachPty() 44
hdate-applet

Adept works normally. Then I click "Upgrade Version" and when I click Finish to launch distribution upgrade tool, this crash happens:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/kde-maini/adept_manageryQ8Ohb.tmp-extract/dist-upgrade.py", line 54, in <module>
    view = view_class()
  File "/tmp/kde-maini/adept_manageryQ8Ohb.tmp-extract/DistUpgradeViewKDE.py", line 371, in __init__
    adeptInterface.quit()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dcopext.py", line 535, in __getattr__
    return DCOPMeth(self, item)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dcopext.py", line 578, in __init__
    self.methods = [str(meth) for meth in dcopObj.objmethods]
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

I haven't file /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

Nothing happens if I use kdesu adept-manager --dist-upgrade-devel. Strangely, this problem happens only when I type that command in Konsole.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Marco: literally nothing happens or adept_manager does start up? Are you using the required quotes? kdesu "adept-manager --dist-upgrade-devel"

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

No, with kdesu adept_manager works fine and I'm not able to reproduce the crash. The crash always happens when I use Konsole.

[Guillaume Martres (smarter)]

I have the same problem, and it happens whether i use ALT+F2 or the Konsole,and I haven't forgottent the quotes.

[gorgonizer (gorgonizer)]

I also receive the same error, with no /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt.log file, only a /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log file (which I think I have attached).

[mrl586 (mrl586)]

I can reproduce this bug in Gutsy Tribe 4.

[Guillaume Martres (smarter)]

I looked a bit at the source(I'm not a python programmer, but I thought i could try some little things) and changed:
def getMethods(self):
                flist, ok = self.objclient.remoteFunctions(self.appname, self.objname)

                if ok:
                        return flist
                else:
                       return None

So that it returns flist, even in the else.
# return None
                       return flist
And I launched Adept again, this time it worked but it crashed again at some point on the upgrade process.

[Guillaume Martres (smarter)]

With update-manager-core 0.70, I don't get any error message but the dist-upgrade is still crashing.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

Fixed, it now just uses killall rather than dcop.

[Marco Maini (maini10)]

In my opinion, there are no reason to keep open this, since the problem seems fixed. Please reopen if you experience again this issue.