[maverick] If a program is downloading, adding another task causes Software Center to freeze temporarily

[Tesselode]

Binary package hint: software-center

The amount of time Software Center freezes increases depending on the number of tasks queued up. This only happens if a program is downloading, not installing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 2.1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.34-5.13-generic 2.6.34
Uname: Linux 2.6.34-5-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jun 3 22:35:06 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100602.2)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

[michael wentzell (mikewentz22)]

Hey, thanks for your bug report. Are you running another application? try closing out all other applications as this may freeze it.
sincerely,
Michael Wentzell

[Tesselode (phoenixawm-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't think I had any applications running.

[michael wentzell (mikewentz22)]

Okay then has your computer been up and running for a while, if so the CPU will start to pile up and cause it to freeze, to fix this just restart your computer.

[Tesselode (phoenixawm-deactivatedaccount)]

I don't think it was running for very long. But even so, it shouldn't take longer and longer just because of how long the computer has been running.

[Francis (floydprince)]

I too have the exact same problem on version 4.0.5 running in ubuntu 11.04

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Is anybody experiencing this problem in recent versions of Ubuntu Software Center in Precise? I don't observer the described behavior in my testing. Therefore, I'll close this as fix released.

Please feel free to reopen if anyone encounters this problem.

Many thanks!