gslapt package manager

[jbs1136]

Is it me or is anyone else having problems with gslapt. For the last two weeks I have not been able to use it. When I get notified of updates I click on the icon in the notification area, enter the root password (sometimes it will not accept it, sometimes it will), and hit enter. Gslapt opens and another window opens telling me what is to be excluded and what is to be added. When I click on "Okay" nothing happens, it just hangs. Going to a root terminal and using splat-get --upgrade works without a problem. I have uninstalled and reinstalled and no change.

thanks for any help,

john

[Akuna]

This is odd. I works well here.

[jbs1136]

Since installation it worked great and after I upgraded to current it still worked. About two weeks ago it started with this problem. When I run Gslapt it works, just when I have updates notification and open that way. Correction, I just tried and it worked installing one app but when I tried it again, it hung again.

john

[gapan]

Do you only get this problem when launching from the tray icon, or also when you launch gslapt from the menu and then click the "mark all upgrades" button? Also, is that a 13.0 or current (13.1alpha) installation we're talking about?

[laprjns]

I've seen the happen also. But it only happens if I click on the "Packages to be Upgrade" to see the list of upgrades. gslapt freezes at that point and after clicking on the x on the top right hand corner several times I eventually get a dialog box the says the window is busy and asks if I want to shut it down. I can run slapt-get from a terminal without any problems with or without the frozen gslap window.
This is happen on both my 64 and 32 current system and I'm pretty sure that it was happening before I upgraded current. One thing I'm no sure of yet is that I did do a clean install of 13.1 on my 32 bit machine and I don't think I've seen the problem since then, but I like I said, I'm not sure.
I've only seen it from launching from the icon try,but I only use gslapt from the icon tray. All other times I use the slapt-get.

Rich

[Shador]

I guess I experienced freezes with slapt-get gui, too. But when I gave it enough time and didn't kill it, it usually finished. So I just assumed some glitch in the code would freeze the GUI but keep the rest working. Accordingly I wasn't quite troubled about it.

[JRD]

I experienced some random crash of Gslapt. For now on, in current, I didn't have any, but that does not mean anything.
I never experienced freeze by the way.

[jbs1136]

Have not installed the new release but did upgrade to current about a month or so ago and have been doing upgrades as I was notified. Also, when I read the changes that were made, I uninstalled the applications that were removed and added in the new ones. Did not upgrade the kernel. I haven't noticed any problems on the 32 bit machine. Not a big thing to me as I use it to find things that I don't know the name of but prefer slapt-get otherwise. I will download the new .iso and install and see if everything works okay then.

Thanks,

john

[pwatk]

I've had random crashes too using 13.0.2a x86_64.

Doesn't matter if I launch it via the tray icon of manually, it will intermittently crash when I click execute. If I then run gslapt again everything works fine.

It strange but limited to the GUI (slapt-get always works) so I just ignore it.

[JRD]

Yes this is exactly what I tried to describe. But for me it's on 32 bits.
But sometimes it worked ok.
In -current, for now, I didn't have any crash so far.