Am Freitag, den 16.11.2012, 21:51 +0000 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: > Public bug reported: > > When aptdaemon has an exception, the aptdaemon client presents an > "unhandlable error" <http://imgur.com/I97mZ> to the user, who probably > can't do anything about it. Meanwhile, the error isn't reported to > Ubuntu developers, who probably can do something about it.
> If an exception results in aptdaemon triggering Apport in Ubuntu 12.04 > and later, the "unhandlable error" alert should be retired altogether, > as it is now redundant. It is the job of the client to decide on how to handle the unhandlable error. Basically the error message informs the client that the transaction failed in a way that we haven't yet thought about and that we cannot name exactly. Software center could just ignore it. But how should the user be notified that the installation of an app failed? Letting software center crash doesn't seem to be a good idea. :) Furthermore aptdaemon should already trigger an apport report in this case. But you will only get a system service crashed report that isn't connected with the transaction in an obvious way. What should we do in such a case? Should we improve the apport report? E.g. "Installing software failed" and don't show any error in the client (software-center). It will be quite tricky to get application names into the apport error message but it could be doable. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079898 Title: Presenting "Unhandlable error" isn't useful to users or developers To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/aptdaemon/+bug/1079898/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
