UT does not handle 404 gracefully
Bug #564933 reported by
Josh
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu Tweak |
Confirmed
|
Medium
|
Ding Zhou | ||
Bug Description
When Ubuntu Tweak encounters a 404 Not Found while querying sources it hangs for about 3 minutes and then reports the error from Apt.
This does not make sense for an application that is supposed to make updating packages easier.
When a 404 is encountered, Ubuntu Tweak should immediately advise the user "you selected a source from the list of available sources, but the resource is not available, possibly because the source does not have packages for [ubuntu version]."
Then it should ask if the user wants to disable the source. Then, it should resume querying sources.
Hanging for 1 to 3 minutes and then dumping an error from Apt isn't acceptable.
Revision history for this message
| Ding Zhou (tualatrix) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in ubuntu-tweak: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| assignee: | nobody → TualatriX (tualatrix) |
| milestone: | none → 0.5.4 |
| Changed in ubuntu-tweak: | |
| milestone: | 0.5.4 → none |
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When Ubuntu Tweak querying the sources, it call the "synaptic". Because synaptic doesn't return the result immediately, so Ubuntu Tweak hangs.
I will try to use the new apt-daemon to replace synaptic in the future.