Bug 181446

Summary: x11/gnome2: Error occurrs when using a GUI frontent for package management
Product: Ports & Packages Reporter: Jordan <squalldesu>
Component: Individual Port(s)Assignee: Mark Linimon <linimon>
Status: Closed Overcome By Events    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: cs
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Jordan 2013-08-21 08:10:00 UTC 
When using the package manager (gpk-application) or update manager I continually get a popup error dialog with this message: "The backend exited unexpectedly. This is a serious error as the spawned backend did not complete the pending transaction." 

This is a small portion of the terminal output after the error occurrs in gpk-application:

..
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: emit transaction-list-changed
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: changed so checking properties, started DBus call: 0x809fa03d0 (0x3)
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: interface changed, started DBus call: 0x809fa03d0 (0x3)
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: got properties, ended DBus call: 0x809fa03d0 (0x3)
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: status now finished
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: got property results, ended DBus call: 0x809fa03d0 (0x0)
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: exit_text=failed
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: state array remove 0x809fa03d0
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: emit transaction-list-changed (when idle)
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: emit transaction-list-changed
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: emit restart-schedule (when idle)
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: emit transaction-list-changed
(gpk-application:3393): PackageKit-DEBUG: notify::connected

I am using FreeBSD 9.1 in VirtualBox with the GNOME desktop.

How-To-Repeat: Browsing sections in gpk-application or by starting update manager. It appears to happen when querying for packages.
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2013-08-24 17:34:56 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->gnome

I don't know exactly which part of gnome this applies to, so pick a 
metaport for the Synopsis and use that as the basis of an assignment.
Comment 2 Carlo Strub freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-09-14 10:42:05 UTC 
Is this PR still relevant?
Comment 3 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-11-30 19:59:12 UTC 
gnome2 has been supplanted by gnome3, so this PR is no longer relevant.