[Bug 1770187] Re: Versions under 0.6.8 freeze on "Would you like to register?" screen

2018-09-30 Thread James Lu
In a perfect world yes, updates could be delivered in a timely fashion and we wouldn't suffer from any issues. But the SRU process is long[1], and I'm not convinced that trying to push a massive shift from Python 2 -> 3 would be appropriate. Last time there was the issue of nobody verifying the

[Bug 1770187] Re: Versions under 0.6.8 freeze on "Would you like to register?" screen

2018-09-30 Thread David Daynard
Why wouldn't you just bump the release version? Especially since the bug is fixed and 18.04 is an LTS -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770187 Title: Versions under 0.6.8 freeze on

[Bug 1770187] Re: Versions under 0.6.8 freeze on "Would you like to register?" screen

2018-07-12 Thread Peter Levi
Hi James. I think it would be a great loss of time to search for a hard- to-tracedown GTK-related bug in those dialogs that serve a feature that has been long non-working, and are no longer there in the current release. I think the right action here is to backport the removal code - while huge in

[Bug 1770187] Re: Versions under 0.6.8 freeze on "Would you like to register?" screen

2018-07-12 Thread James Lu
** Changed in: variety Importance: Undecided => High -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770187 Title: Versions under 0.6.8 freeze on "Would you like to register?" screen To manage

[Bug 1770187] Re: Versions under 0.6.8 freeze on "Would you like to register?" screen

2018-07-10 Thread James Lu
I can confirm this under Ubuntu 18.04 and 0.6.7-1. There seems to be sporadic freezes on startup, and a reproducible one on shutdown (eventually Variety has to be force killed by a watchdog thread) This seems to have been fixed in 0.6.8 and later by removing all the vrty.org-related code, so I'm

[Bug 1770187] Re: Versions under 0.6.8 freeze on "Would you like to register?" screen

2018-07-10 Thread James Lu
In other words, I would really appreciate some help on this issue :( -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1770187 Title: Versions under 0.6.8 freeze on "Would you like to register?" screen