I'm on Mist 17.1 (didn't know there was a 17.2 - I'll have to go take a peek!)
I am disturbed by the repeated comments, both here and other places, that describe this error as a "nuisance". Unfortunately, I am not a developer so my ability to investigate (fork) such-and-so is painfully limited. However, I *am* a user with at least a moderate amount of "clue", and I like to keep an eye on my logs as well as the messages that occur when I perform updates. With respect to myself, (and I am sure this is true for many others as well), when I see *ANY* error message that has the word "CRITICAL**" in it, I naturally assume that something has balled-up in a non-trivial way, and it places my system at (at least) severe risk of something drastic happening. As a QA engineer of some years standing, if I was testing a product, and it threw a "CRITICAL**" error - even if mistaken - I would flag it as at least a Sev-2, (High, but not critical), bug simply based on the violently scary message it presents. With respect to release, I would also rank it as a Severity-2 priority, (must-fix, ASAP), due to the message. I fully understand - from the development point-of-view - this bug may be a "nuisance" bug, (pissy message, but no real crisis), but the vast majority of us are *NOT* developers, and having "nuisance" bugs flagged as "CRITICAL**" is potentially dangerous., since it tends to dull the user's vigilance - "Oh, another "CRITICAL" bug? Must be another bogus message. . . . since my system *seems* to be OK. . . . ." Please, please, please re-think the priority and severity of this bug. It may be trivial to *YOU*, but I can absolutely assure you that it is *NOT* trivial to the rest of us.\ What say ye? Jim (JR) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1282542 Title: (synaptic:3405): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_child_watch_add_full: assertion 'pid > 0' failed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/vte/+bug/1282542/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
