On Friday 29 January 2010 19:22:55 Jan Simonson wrote:

> Hello Martin,

>

> Ten days ago you wrote:

> > It looks like we are at the same level now. I too downgraded kpackagekit

> >

> > to version 0.5.2-1 and ... the KDE Daemon didn't crash. Available

> > updates are visible. The crashes didn't happen anymore, after I got the

> > following

> >

> > updates:

> > Jan 16 11:26:49 Updated: libxcb-1.5-1.fc12.x86_64

> > Jan 16 11:26:51 Updated: system-config-printer-libs-1.1.16-8.fc12.x86_64

> > Jan 16 11:26:53 Updated: libxfcegui4-4.6.2-1.fc12.x86_64

> > Jan 16 11:26:54 Updated: system-config-printer-udev-1.1.16-8.fc12.x86_64

> > Jan 16 11:26:56 Updated: gdb-7.0.1-26.fc12.x86_64

> > Jan 16 11:26:57 Updated: 1:xorg-x11-drv-

> > nouveau-0.0.15-19.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.x86_64

> > Jan 16 11:26:58 Updated: libxcb-devel-1.5-1.fc12.x86_64

> > Jan 16 11:27:00 Updated: system-config-printer-1.1.16-8.fc12.x86_64

> >

> > Which one is relevant if one? I don't know. May be there is still

> > somewhere

> >

> > a 'red herring'? :-)

>

> It might very well be one still left ;-)

>

> A couple of days ago I suddenly started getting kded4 crashes after I

> checked for upgrades with kpackagekit and found at least one upgrade. As

> this was new, and I had been able to use kpackagekit without any problems

> since the last packagekit upgrade, I started downgrading what I had

> recently upgraded in other packages. However this didn't solve the

> crash-problem so I re-upgraded again. All the time I checked frequently if

> the kded4 crash still was there and it was!

>

> After much thought I remembered that I had adjusted the KDE system-settings

> at about the time the crashes started. Some experimentation later I found

> that if the "Kpackagekit-tjänst" (-service in english) is started in

> system-settings > Advanced > Services kded4 crashes some ten minutes after

> kpackagekit is closed whether I actually upgraded something or not as long

> as there are upgrades available.

>

> This is fully reproducible. I also have a backtrace but I doubt if it's of

> any use. It's included below anyhow. I use

> kpackagekit-0.5.2-1.fc12.x86_64.

Hi Jan,

In Koji you can find kpackagekit-0.5.2-2.fc12.x86_64. To me, this version doesn't crash and has automatic update notification fixed.

Hopes this helps,

Martin Kho

>

> Regards

> Jan