KPackageKit - can't edit origins

[el_koraco]

Natty on 32 bit.

I don't know how long this has been going on, but I tried to edit my sources through KPackageKit yesterday, and am unable to. When I try to do it, I get a policykit autentification dialog, enter my password, and nothing happens. I haven't lost my sudo privileges, since I'm quite able to use apt, but this is a dead end. It might be because of something I did, although I'm not sure. The only thing that pops to mind is Chrome adding its PPA when I installed the .deb through GDebi. Running Kpackage through Konsole brings up this message:

Application asked to unregister timer 0x77000008 which is not registered in this thread. Fix application.
QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/mreto/.config/ibus/bus

Anyone else having the problem? Is it a bug that should be reported, shjould i supply any further info, or something else?

[el_koraco]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

And, no, running KPK with kdesudo doesn't change anything, except for the fact that policykit jumps out at the beginning.

[dibl]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

Confirmed -- it looks like a bona-fide bug to me. The authentication just loops and never proceeds to allow editing of the "origins" (I wonder why they started calling the repos "origins"?). I don't think adding your chrome PPA made it happen. I have the sun-java-xxx repo added, but I see the same bug that you found.

[Snowhog]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

Re-confirmed. It isn't just KPackagekit that is affected - Muon also won't bring up the sources list for editing. The option to Configure Software Sources is there, but clicking on it and typing in my password only does a package cache update - nothing more.

[claydoh]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

The actual debian/ubuntu specific too that is broken is called software-properties-kde, it is actually a separate app as KPK doesn't actually handle debian repository configuration on its own. It is also used in muon and doesn't work there either.

[el_koraco]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

Excelent, thanks for the package name, that was really helpful. Anyway, seeing as no bug against policykit or kde-software-properties were reported, I took the liberty of doing it.

Yoo can add yourselfs to the bug, gentlemen.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/768363/

[el_koraco]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

Until the bug is fixed, if you need to make changes, the gtk package works. Download the software-properties-gtk package and run it with kdesudo.

[hinny.b]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

Have just re-installed natty beta 1 here - and edit origins works as it should - the version of software-properties-kde there is 0.80.5. The option to update is available - all the way to 0.80.8.

edit: just re-installed beta 2 - software-properties-kde is 0.80.7 - and works just fine - it must be that last update where things go wrong.

edit: have just applied all updates except software-properties-kde and edit origins no longer works

[el_koraco]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

Yes, I installed via a daily just after beta 2, the package was working then.

[wizard10000]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

Until the bug is fixed, if you need to make changes, the gtk package works. Download the software-properties-gtk package and run it with kdesudo.

Synaptic also works, for those of us who can't seem to break that habit

[el_koraco]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

Interrestingly enough, the gtk frontend doesn't seem to have the bug that it has in Ubuntu - there it makes a double list of every repository. I would guess the whole bug should get on the to do list for one of the dist-upgrades.

[Snowhog]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

Instead of installing Synaptic, which brings in it's Ubuntu dependencies, I'll stick with managing my repositories from the CLI until they fix the problem.

[claydoh]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

it is written in python/pykde so that may be something with the move to python 2.7

[el_koraco]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

Fix committed.

[PaulW2U]

Re: KPackageKit - can't edit origins

Fix released and confirmed as working.