Gnome Packagekit crashes when entering a package name search in Ubuntu Noble

[Xavier Guillot]

Hi, I run Ubuntu development branch 24.04 and I have a problem with Gnome PackageKit 43.0-2 : application launches well, but if I write a program / package name in the search field and click on"Enter", it crashes and closes :

$ gpk-application

(gpk-application:12334): PackageKit-CRITICAL **: 17:52:58.785: pk_client_generic_finish: assertion 'G_IS_TASK (res)' failed
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)

$ gpk-application

(gpk-application:32194): PackageKit-CRITICAL **: 22:23:35.001: pk_client_generic_finish: assertion 'G_IS_TASK (res)' failed
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

As many programs have the "core dumped" error, this is perhaps the explanation, related to AppArmor:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/epiphany-browser/+bug/2046844/comments/3

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[John Johansen (jjohansen)]

I have confirmed this is not due to the AppArmor user namespace restriction. When trying to search for an application the application will crash with the following segfault

[79854.520976] gpk-application[19250]: segfault at 8 ip 00005930eec2dba8 sp 00007fff471b6b70 error 4 in gpk-application[5930eec24000+d000] likely on CPU 1 (core 0, socket 1)
[79854.520985] Code: 85 ff 0f 85 72 fd ff ff e9 72 fd ff ff 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 8b 44 24 30 48 8d 15 37 46 00 00 be 10 00 00 00 48 8d 3d c2 34 00 00 <48> 8b 48 08 31 c0 e8 6d 79 ff ff c7 43 04 00 00 00 00 48 8b 7b 50

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

I still have the issue on Ubuntu 24.04 final :

$ gpk-application

(gpk-application:36353): PackageKit-CRITICAL **: 19:38:03.762: pk_client_generic_finish: assertion 'G_IS_TASK (res)' failed
Erreur de segmentation (core dumped)

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

Same issue on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - I write something in the search field and press "Enter", then gnome-packagekit crashes and closes :( Here is output from terminal:

mantas@Ubuntu-24-Baltix:~$ gpk-application -v
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1)
14:22:32 PackageKit role now get-repo-list
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit CLEAR search
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit no input
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit CLEAR search
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit no input
14:22:32 PackageKit notify::connected
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit state=5
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit set search type=1
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit CLEAR welcome
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit now wait
14:22:32 PackageKit emit transaction-list-changed
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit now setup
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit now query
14:22:32 GnomePackageKit now finished
14:22:32 PackageKit emit transaction-list-changed
14:22:51 GnomePackageKit CLEAR search
14:22:51 GnomePackageKit find browser
14:22:51 PackageKit adding state 0x60642424e4f0
14:22:51 PackageKit role now search-details
14:22:51 GnomePackageKit now wait
14:22:51 PackageKit emit transaction-list-changed
14:22:51 GnomePackageKit now setup
14:22:51 GnomePackageKit now loading-cache
14:22:51 GnomePackageKit now query
14:22:53 GnomePackageKit now finished
14:22:53 PackageKit remove state 0x60642424e4f0
14:22:53 PackageKit emit transaction-list-changed

(gpk-application:18772): PackageKit-CRITICAL **: 14:22:53.337: pk_client_generic_finish: assertion 'G_IS_TASK (res)' failed
Trace/breakpoint trap

[Xavier Guillot (valeryan-24)]

Hi, to help resolve the issue and its cause : I just updated to Ubuntu development branch 24.10 and bug isn't there anymore, Gnome Packagekit doesn't crash - so one or many of the updates have corrected the bug.