Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: packagekit (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1766932
Title:
packagekit daemon crashed from Discover. Requires a manual 'dpkg
--configure -a' to correct.
Status in packagekit package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The packagekit package has just been updated by discover (Kubuntu) from
1.1.7-1 to 1.1.7-1ubuntu0.1.
Discover reported that the packagekit daemon had crashed.
The resulting dpkg status is:
[parent]: dpkg-query -l 'packagekit*'
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
iF packagekit 1.1.7-1ubunt amd64 Provides a package management ser
un packagekit-bac <none> <none> (no description available)
un packagekit-bac <none> <none> (no description available)
un packagekit-bac <none> <none> (no description available)
un packagekit-off <none> <none> (no description available)
un packagekit-plu <none> <none> (no description available)
iU packagekit-too 1.1.7-1ubunt amd64 Provides PackageKit command-line
and apt-get upgrade reports:
root@parent:~# apt-get upgrade
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
correct the problem.
Running that command does tidy things up, but the daemon should not
crash.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: packagekit 1.1.7-1ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-39.44-generic 4.13.16
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-39-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Wed Apr 25 17:47:49 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-19 (157 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64
(20171017.1)
SourcePackage: packagekit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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