Software Center hangs if connection lost

mike-ward

Something I noticed today. If the WiFi connection goes down while the Software Center is trying to download, it hangs and has to be forcibly closed.

brent

mike-ward
I would expect hanging behavior from any app that depends on wifi/ethernet. If my line goes down my network manager goes into a persistent loop trying to reconnect. I've never had a browser, for instance, seize up for lost connection, to be fair, that kind of stuff is usually resources.
And using the X on the window to kill the hanging app seems normal, too.
What would not be normal is having the close X not work, and you having you use killall, or htop, or system settings to 'forcibly' shut down app but even that happens sometimes. Is that what you mean by 'forcibly'?
I feel like I'm missing something here (which is often the case).

mike-ward

Part way through the download, the connection failed and Software Manager became unresponsive. When I clicked on it the "Force Quit/Wait" dialog appeared. Tried waiting a few times and finally chose "Force Quit". I was thinking Software Manager should have alerted me to the dropped connection and terminated the download rather than becoming unresponsive.

brent

mike-ward . I was thinking Software Manager should have alerted me to the dropped connection and terminated the download rather than becoming unresponsive.

that's clearer to me, thanks. but when it stalled out you went to close that app and got the quit/wait thing.

I believe, depending on DE (budgie-system settings, notifications if you had budgie), you can set your network manager to give a warning that flashes across the desktop about dropped connection...the task bar network connection icon may even change color to indicate that. Worth pursuing. I know when my LAN quits, if I miss all the signs, I will know from any browser page🙂.

I can't address your "should have" sentiment regarding the app so perhaps someone will. edit/sp