Comment 49 for bug 1053910

Git commit 6d9581b2984c89e0ed91a27a205b345e67198c01 by Jonathan Thomas.
Committed on 26/09/2012 at 18:01.
Pushed by jmthomas into branch '1.4'.

Exceptions that MetaReleaseCore throw during a download happen in a separate thread, so we can't catch them.

The root cause of the IOError seems to be the existence of a proxy, and it appears that UpdateManager has a proxy init function. (Poor design on UpdateManager's part...)
This should fix the root cause of this bug, but I fear for other exceptions that could be thrown that MetaReleaseCore won't catch for us...
I'll commit a separate fix to make our KProcess call to releasechecker non-blocking.

M +11 -14 kded/distupgradeevent/releasechecker

http://commits.kde.org/muon/6d9581b2984c89e0ed91a27a205b345e67198c01