Re: [Synaptic-devel] "Please contact the author of this software if this messageis diplayed"

[Philip Miller]

Thanks for CCing me, and please continue to do so, as I'm not subscribed.

Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:26:47PM -0400, Philip Miller wrote:
>
> > First off, "messageis" should be "message is". Patch would be attached, 
> > except grep can't find 'messageis' anywhere in the source. Neither is it to 
> > be found in the source of apt or dpkg.
> >
> > Second, I've contacted you. What can I do to help debug this? I haven't 
> > tried to reproduce, because I've kept the "Applying Changes..." window of 
> > Synaptic open.
>
> Thanks for contacting us. This message is displayed if there is a
> unknown error condition returned from apt. I really want to know how
> often this happens and under what cirumstances. 

This is the first and only time I've seen the error. When I clicked close on 
that terminal and hit apply a second time, everything worked perfectly.

> Did something got actually installed during the run that resulted in
> this message? 

Nothing got installed during that run. I copied the _complete_ text contents 
of that window below.

> > The complete contents of the window are as follows:
> >
> > > Please contact the author of this software if this messageis diplayed
> > >                                                                    Successfull
> > > y applied all changes. You can close the window now 
> >
> > I'm running Debian unstable ("Sid"). Presently, I use apt-watch and 
> > apt-listchanges. There may be some interaction among them causing this 
> > issue, and if there is, I'd be glad to help flush it out.
> >
> > I've already filed a Debian bug on this matter, though the bug server seems 
> > to be running slowly, as I've not gotten the ACK with the bug number back 
> > yet.
>
> Thanks. What kind of kernel do you run? How often did this happen? Is
> it reproducable? 

$ uname -a
Linux phil 2.6.5+phil1 #1 Sun Apr 4 14:16:16 EDT 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

Locally built, but no patches, just the vanilla kernel.org source.

When I run it again from apt-watch, when it shows there are upgrades, I 
receive the same error on the first attempt at 'Apply'ing, and then it works 
correctly on the second, as before.

Philip miller