error: the backend took too much time to process the synchronous request...

[przxqgl]

i recently fought through a three-day upgrade to jaunty (with the help of mando_hacker, without whom i would have likely had to reinstall), and now i'm getting a lot of bug-fix and security updates through KDE Control Module. whenever i allow it to do it's "thing", it inevitably ends up putting an error message on my screen that says

A problem that we were not expecting has occurred. Please report this bug with the error description.

Details

The backend took too much time to process the synchronous request - you need to fork!

what does this mean? to whom do i report the bug? how does one "fork"? do i actually have the bug-fixes and security updates, or does this error mean that nothing got installed? and if nothing got installed, how do i get the bug-fixes and security updates?

[vinnywright]

Re: error: the backend took too much time to process the synchronous request...

a lot fo us have had this bug ......It apears to just be an anoince as things seam to get instaled --try adding adept !

some times when I get that error I'll click ok (so it go's away) and then click apply all updates agin and get beter resaults .

VINNY

[Monster_user]

Re: error: the backend took too much time to process the synchronous request...

Sorry to revive an old thread, but I ran into this error myself today, and I wanted to ensure there was a solution available.

I solved the issue, by opening a "konsole" window, and running "sudo aptitude update".

After that Kpackagekit started working immediately started showing updates. Still buggered though.

[vinnywright]

Re: error: the backend took too much time to process the synchronous request...

synaptic is the way to go.

sudo apt-get install synaptic

works verey well...........I would have sugjested it befor but at the time of this OP I hadent discoverd it yet. :P

VINNY