'Add missing keys' stops the program from responding
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- desktop, operating-systems
Research direction
No source files or tests are named in the report. Reproduce the freeze by choosing “Add missing keys,” then inspect the system log for the reported spin-lock messages and compare with issue #273 and Update Manager issue #1036. Done means the operation completes or reports an actionable error without requiring Force Quit.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
When I choose 'Add missing keys' I see this:
Choosing 'Wait' just repeats the message, so eventually one has to choose 'Force Quit'.
My system
OS: Linux Mint 22.3 x86_64
Host: Laptop 13 (AMD Ryzen 7040Series) (A5)
Kernel: Linux 6.17.0-23-generic
Uptime: 5 days, 1 hour, 51 mins
DE: Cinnamon 6.6.7
WM: Muffin (X11)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7640U (12) @ 4.97 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon 760M Graphics [Integrated]
Memory: 5.69 GiB / 14.93 GiB (38%)
Swap: 72.40 MiB / 46.57 GiB (0%)
Disk (/): 20.82 GiB / 147.39 GiB (14%) - ext4
Disk (/home): 62.28 GiB / 384.42 GiB (16%) - ext4
Battery (FRANGWA): 82% [AC Connected]
Locale: en_GB.UTF-8
The system log for at least approximately the relevant period of time contains material about spin locks.
Bugs that might be related
#273;
#1036 (filed against Update Manager).
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 59
- Forks
- 80
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
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