Help! Adept tools freeze on "Filtering..."

[myxal]

Sometime this week, probably after an update on Monday, adept tools (manager, updater...) stopped working properly (I haven't noticed because I usually use aptitude). Now they go through the initialisation stage (reading DBase info, building dependencies, etc..) and proceed to filtering. That's when the tool freezes, occupying 100% CPU for a few minutes before finally starting up. Once started, the search function works reasonably fast (not much slower than before). Running "sudo adept_manager" in konsole yields:

$ sudo adept_manager
kapture::PkgSystem::PkgSystem()
python
python-support
python
python
python-support
python
kdecore (KProcess): WARNING: _attachPty() 37

Any ideas?

[dibl]

Re: Help! Adept tools freeze on "Filtering..."

There was some kind of change to the dpkg manager a couple days ago, I noticed (Gutsy). I ran

sudo dpkg --configure -a

and it appeared to install an update to the dpkg system, then all was OK again after I ran

sudo apt-get autoclean

and

sudo apt-get autoremove

.

[myxal]

Re: Help! Adept tools freeze on "Filtering..."

Did try, no dice..

My guess is that the dpkg/apt are perfectly OK, since aptitude works flawlessly. What might be an issue is that while using aptitude, I upgraded a package that was being held back (whatever that means). Do you know where I can find dpkg log so I can see what it was? Inspecting the adept-manager dependencies, I guess it could be one of the following:

 kdelibs4c2a - version installed: 4:3.5.6-0ubuntu14.1
lobqt3-mt - version installed: 3:3.3.8really3.3.7-0ubuntu5.2

Adept version: 2.1.2ubuntu26.1

Which versions are you using?

[dibl]

Re: Help! Adept tools freeze on "Filtering..."

kdelibs4c2a says installed ver. is 4:3.5.7-1ubuntu15

I don't find your lobqt3-mt package in my repo (Gutsy 64-bit). Hmmmm. What is it?

[myxal]

Re: Help! Adept tools freeze on "Filtering..."

I don't find your lobqt3-mt package in my repo (Gutsy 64-bit). Hmmmm. What is it?

OOPS.. I meant libqt3-mt

kdelibs4c2a says installed ver. is 4:3.5.7-1ubuntu15

Looks like Gutsy got newer KDE... I'll see if I can rollback to the older adept version... If that doesn't work, I'll just wait for Gutsy final: with 11 days to go, the wait won't be that long

[dibl]

Re: Help! Adept tools freeze on "Filtering..."

Hmmm

libqt3-mt says it is ver. 3.3.3.Breally3.3.7-0ubuntu11

That's different than yours -- I wonder why?

[myxal]

Re: Help! Adept tools freeze on "Filtering..."

Hmmm libqt3-mt says it is ver. 3.3.3.Breally3.3.7-0ubuntu11 That's different than yours -- I wonder why?

Probably comes with the newer KDE as well (qt is the window toolkit all KDE apps use). The other version I can choose is even older (...ubuntu5).

Rolled back all adept tools, checked> no change.
Rolled back kdelibs4c2a and libqt3-mt, restarted X to be sure > no change.

Next I'll check the dpkg log to see what was actually upgraded, and rollback anything I missed. If that doesn't help, hmm... dunno yet, but no way am I reinstalling the system from scratch over this 'glitch'. > That'd be too "windows-style" repair

EDIT: It's things like this that make the linux shell really shine

I'll check the dpkg log to see what was actually upgraded, and rollback anything I missed.

cat /var/log/dpkg.log | grep upgrade

Try that in Event Viewer

[dibl]

Re: Help! Adept tools freeze on "Filtering..."

but no way am I reinstalling the system from scratch over this 'glitch'

Well, yeah not to fix the glitch, BUT, how about to run Gutsy?

[myxal]

Re: Help! Adept tools freeze on "Filtering..."

Well, yeah not to fix the glitch, BUT, how about to run Gutsy?

You mean a complete dist-upgrade Feisty>Gutsy? Yeah, I'll definitely do that - backup / to be sure, then get the alternate CD to upgrade the system - I've done this on another computer (not exactly, that was Edgy>Feisty and Ubuntu) and it worked like charm.. then again, the system wasn't as heavily customized (read "installed 3rd party apps", not look'n'feel) as mine. I'm particularly worried about stuff that's close to kernel - vmWare, cdemu (I've seen what this does with a mere kernel upgrade), other things should be fine.

EDIT: well, I rolled back all this and still nada... screw this, I'm waiting for Gutsy (Reminds me of all the Windows users "waiting for SP1", lol)

[myxal]

Re: Help! Adept tools freeze on "Filtering..."

UPDATE: As I was upgrading to Gutsy, I noticed that adept-updater was complaining about being unable to install kubuntu-desktop (I removed some apps I will likely never use - digikam, Kaffeine etc...), so I went to aptitude to install it - an voila, adept manager worked perfectly (probably some of the apps weren't properly removed before). The cdromupgrade however, still had some issues with update-manager (yes, the synaptic updater), which wasn't installed at all - from the looks of it, the cdromupgrade will use the updater installed and adept, apparently, still has some issues to fix. So, again in aptitude, I installed update manager and upgraded the system successfully.

Not sure if this will help anyone, just thought I'd share my experience