kpackagekit fails silently when attempting to install some packages

[Mike Sunderland]

Binary package hint: kpackagekit

Using lucid beta 1

when trying to install some packages kpackagekit fails silently - ie fails to install the selected package(s) and give no indication that the installation has failed.

eg running kpackagekit from the command-line and trying to install xubuntu-desktop (but this happens with other packages as well).

nadmin@w243:~$ kpackagekit
nadmin@w243:~$ Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
Error, cannot create transaction proxy
enumFromString ( Group ) : converted "unknown" to "UnknownGroup" , enum value 0
QDBusConnection: name 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.105'
removing transaction from pool : "/76_edadbadc_data"
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/nadmin/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
removing transaction from pool : "/77_cbaaaacb_data"
removing transaction from pool : "/78_ecaacaea_data"

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: kpackagekit 0.5.4-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 6 10:22:54 2010
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kpackagekit

[Thomas Orgis (thomas-forum)]

I see the same general issue on a kubuntu 10.04.1 live system (USB drive). Tell KPackageKit to apply changes ... and wait a few seconds, and nothing got installed. Console output looks the same (ibus stuff).

I can install using apt-get just fine.

[Thomas Orgis (thomas-forum)]

Hm sorry ... that ibus stuff is rather irrelevant, I suppose. All I can say is that I had similar non-behaviour of kpackagekit. Now, after doing some installs with apt-get, it suddenly worked.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test a current, supported, Ubuntu version. If you can test it in either Kubuntu 10.10 or Natty Narwhal, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect556137, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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