aptBackend.py crashed with error in connect()

[Christopher]

Binary package hint: packagekit

This has popped up a few times today.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 16 12:23:56 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
Package: packagekit-backend-apt 0.4.9+20090825-0ubuntu2
ProcCmdline: python /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py get-updates none
ProcEnviron: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py', 'get-updates', 'none']
SourcePackage: packagekit
Title: aptBackend.py crashed with error in connect()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic i686
UserGroups:

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

It probably is a duplicate. I reproduced right after using the new 'Software Update' in System/Administration.

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

This keeps popping up like a bad penny every time the system checks for updates.

[Vincent DAVY (vincentdavy)]

I got exactly the same problem, and I cannno install / update / delete any package with kpakageit.
for me, this bug must be modified to high

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Have you disabled the syslogd on your system?

[Christopher (soft-kristal)]

That notification doesn't happen on my system anymore. Probably something in the 200+ updates over the past two days.

[Tamás Gál (galtom)]

Change line 53 in aptBackend.py form this:

_syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler("/dev/log", logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.LOG_DAEMON)

to this:

_syslog = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.LOG_DAEMON)

KPackageKit seems to working and I don't have any error messages now. But I don't know that the logging is working.

[Tamás Gál (galtom)]

Sorry for that. Bug #458759 has Fix Committed.