On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 06:55:00PM +1300, Matthew McGowan wrote: > So looking at the bugs today, a fair few reports are related to > DatabaseModified errors. Is this still an occurring phenomena? I have > never seen this, but if people are experiencing this bug I wonder if this is > not due to our use of a single instance of a xapian db? [..]
Thanks a lot for looking into this! So far I was under the impression we get something wrong with the (external) update-software-center (because the error message looks like this). But you are right, there is a problem with our usage of the threaded xapian enqire. > Disclaimer: a lot of the docs/list-conversations i found were a few years > old, but i couldn't see any release overviews which indicated any > substantial change in this domain. Yeah, I think this has not really changed. > I am just thinking aloud... on a friday night... after a wine... or two ... > ... regardless of whether i am on the right track, and assuming these errors > are still occurring, we should definitely investigate the source of this > issue? Yes? No? A big YES from me on this :) I created a test (tests/test_appstore.py) that makes it either hang or crash. This will be the starting point for the fix. Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~software-store-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~software-store-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
