Good idea to use a timeout. Could be implemented on the
aptdaemon/gtk3widgets level.
Sometimes a background task could block your transaction (e.g. fetching
the latest updates) - those background tasks use an apt-get based cron
job. We could detect if it is part of the cron job or if the apt-get
Sebastian, I'm reopening this for aptdaemon because I think it should be
handled in one place, rather than USC, the Dash, Software Updater, and
Software Sources all having to implement it individually.
So, I've designed an alert that should appear to let you know what's
going on, with a choice to
I close bug for aptdaemon since I don't see how we could improve the
situation from the daemon side.
The transaction is in the STATUS_WAITING_LOCK state. INMHO software-
center should raise the visibility of this state e.g. by showing a
persistent in-window notification if the transaction is in
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No obvious error when
Aptdaemon already shows the name of the binary/application which holds
the lock in the status message: Waiting for XXX to exit Possible
values in real life are aptitude, apt-get, dpkg and synaptic.
The status of the transaction is set to PK_STATUS_ENUM_WAITING_FOR_LOCK
on the PackageKit
The cleanest solution would be to use aptdaemon for the daily updates
and in synaptic. But especially the later one would require a little bit
of work.
Since synaptic runs in the user session and aptdaemon doesn't it isn't
the job of aptdameon to notify the user. Sending Synaptic to the front
Hello Matthew,
sorry for the slow reply. It is possible in aptdaemon to figure out the name of
the application that holds the lock.
I am not sure if there is a generic way of offering to close the application as
it would have to be voluntarily and
I don't think there is a generic way for this.
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Ryan, showing a notification bubble might be frustrating if there's a
way that the computer can help you solve the problem. It might also be
frustrating if there's nothing you can do about the problem. I think we
should instead be more interactive, offering to close Synaptic for you
to unblock.
Agreed with Ryan. A notification is important. Merely adding an icon to
the row is insufficient, especially if you leave the Ubuntu Software
Centre running in the background while you continue work on something
else.
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I actually think that a notification would be nice, if it used Ubuntu's
default desktop notification system (NotifyOSD I think). I agree that no
notification about this should have to appear in the Software Center,
but perhaps something from NotifyOSD like Please exit Synaptic to
continue
Hi David! Thanks for your bug report. We probably don't want to display
a notification here, but it indeed doesn't make much sense to display a
spinning icon with the label 'in progress' when there isn't any
progress. We could do something along the lines of either not spinning
the icon, or using
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