system testing locked up at dead pixel test

[Roy]

Binary package hint: firefox

Ran system testing; all went well until dead pixel screen test then it would not continue on a key press or mouse click. Logged out to recover but system testing was still running; had to reboot to regain control of the computer.

Ubuntu Lucid 10.04
checkbox 0.9.1
expected the program to accept key press to continue after displaying screen of red pixels
instead program locked up, would not recover on log out/in (program reported as still running after log in); had to restart the computer.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Jul 16 17:44:44 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Roy (rdstrac)]

I don't know where all the Firefox stuff came from. The problem is in Checkbox...

[drew212 (mstngdrew212)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have the correct package associated with it as you suggested in your last comment; so I have assigned the correct package, checkbox.

For future reference: If the application doesn't have a Help > Report a Problem... menu then you can use "ubuntu-bug [packagename]" in the terminal to open a bug report that lists the correct package.

[Roy (rdstrac)]

On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 20:40 +0000, drew212 wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. This bug did not have the correct package associated with
> it as you suggested in your last comment; so I have assigned the correct
> package, checkbox.
>
> For future reference: If the application doesn't have a Help > Report a
> Problem... menu then you can use "ubuntu-bug [packagename]" in the
> terminal to open a bug report that lists the correct package.
>
> ** Package changed: firefox (Ubuntu) => checkbox (Ubuntu)
>

This is a round-about way of reporting a bug, but I can't seem to get
into launchpad. I did log in but firefox closed unexpectedly and now I
can't seem to get anywhere except a page titled openID transaction in
progress which tries to load but times out. Seems you can't get there
from here.
Anyway -
what I am trying to report seems to be a bug in the update program
aptBackend.py or Backend.py. When doing an update a window opened with
the text -

Error Type: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>

Error Value: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer,
exceptions.SystemError found

File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2216, in
<module>

main()

File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2213, in
main

run(args, options.single)

File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2175, in
run

backend.dispatcher(args)

File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 699,
in dispatcher

self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])

File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 606,
in dispatch_command

self.refresh_cache(force)

File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 202, in
_locked_cache

func(*args, **kwargs)

File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1498, in
refresh_cache

format_string(error.message))

File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 723,
in format_string

txt = unicode(text, encoding, errors='replace')

What any of this means, I don't know, but hopefully someone will get
this message and know what to do with it.

Sorry for this but I didn't know how else to report it.
  Roy (<email address hidden>)

[Brendan Donegan (brendan-donegan)]

Hi, is this bug reproducible, and have you tried it with the latest updates applied?

[Roy (rdstrac)]

On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 07:50 +0000, Brendan Donegan wrote:
> Hi, is this bug reproducible, and have you tried it with the latest
> updates applied?
>
> ** Changed in: checkbox (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

Hi Brendan

I had forgotten all about this report. Just ran the tests again and
everything completed normally. A new report has been submitted.

  Roy

[Chad A Davis (chadadavis)]

Roy, if this is working for you now, I'm going to go ahead and mark this bug report as invalid. If it occurs again, feel free to re-open the bug (set the status at the top) and provide any additional details. Thanks again.

Side note: according to bug 546993 the dead pixel test has been removed in the current version of checkbox.

[Roy (rdstrac)]

Hi Chad

It seems to be working OK now. I have no problem with you marking this report invalid.

  Roy

[Chad A Davis (chadadavis)]

Thanks, Roy, if something comes up again, or if you can narrow the issue down any further, go ahead and re-open the bug.