I think this is really a bug in packagekit. On 18.04 I can also trigger
this by just running pkcon get-distro-upgrades in a terminal:
Transaction: Getting upgrades
Status: Waiting in queue
Status: Starting
Status: Finished
Results:
Fatal error: Spawn of helper
'/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/aptcc/get-distro-upgrade.py' failed: failed to
spawn /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/aptcc/get-distro-upgrade.py: Failed to
execute child process
?/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/aptcc/get-distro-upgrade.py?
The problem seems to be that in debian/rules this file is being deleted:
58 │ # Ubuntu-specific, broken
59 │ rm -f
$(INSTALLDIR)/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/aptcc/get-distro-upgrade.py
But it is still referenced in backends/aptcc/pk-backend-aptcc.cpp:
287 │ /**
288 │ * pk_backend_get_distro_upgrades:
289 │ */
290 │ void pk_backend_get_distro_upgrades(PkBackend *backend, PkBackendJob
*job)
291 │ {
292 │ pk_backend_spawn_helper(spawn, job, "get-distro-upgrade.py",
"get-distro-upgrades", NULL);
293 │ }
Newer upstream versions of PackageKit (1.1.13) seem to have this file
removed - and also the reference in backends/aptcc/pk-backend-aptcc.cpp.
** Also affects: packagekit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1709699
Title:
gpk-update-viewer fails with "Spawn of helper
'usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/aptcc/get-distro-upgrade.py' failed ...
(No such file or directory)"
Status in gnome-packagekit package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in packagekit package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
gpk-update-viewer fails with
Spawn of helper '/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/aptcc/get-distro-upgrade.py'
failed: failed to spawn
/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/aptcc/get-distro-upgrade.py: Failed to execute
child process “/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/aptcc/get-distro-upgrade.py” (No
such file or directory)
This was detected by Robert Reinsch on a Ubuntu 17.04 system and was
verified by me on a 17.10 daily build from 2017-08-09
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-packagekit 3.24.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-10.15-generic 4.11.8
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Aug 9 21:00:48 2017
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gpk-update-viewer
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-09 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170807)
SourcePackage: gnome-packagekit
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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