#8654 BLOC 8.2.1: terminal disappears when doing sugar-control-panel -g available_updates

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#8654: terminal disappears when doing sugar-control-panel -g available_updates
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   Reporter:  mikus      |       Owner:  marco                            
       Type:  defect     |      Status:  new                              
   Priority:  blocker    |   Milestone:  8.2.1                            
  Component:  sugar      |     Version:  Development build as of this date
 Resolution:             |    Keywords:                                   
Next_action:  never set  |    Verified:  0                                
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Comment(by mikus):

 Replying to [comment:4 tomeu]:
 > can you please check the output of ps_mem.py (you can google to find it)
 next time it happens? This will tell us which process is misbehaving.
 Thanks!
 Sorry, the output of ps_mem.py appears to tell NOTHING about any processes
 misbehaving.  Look in the attached tar at files 02 and 03.

 [Could it be that since ps_mem.py wanted to be run as root, it did not
 show processes running under olpc ?]

 In any case, I get  the terminal session disappearing *every* time I run
 'sugar-control-panel g available_updates' in a recent Joyride.  [In 765 it
 runs fine on that same XO.]  It seems to "close shop" while 'Checking
 WikipediaEN' (or something like that).  To me it looks like it simply  has
 trouble handling "large" library bundles (from the Joyride "template" in
 the wiki).

 [p.s.  I took a series of ps_mem snaps:  Before running any commands;
 While 'sugar-control-panel' was running; after the terminal session
 disappeared; when terminal (to replace the disappeard one) did not launch
 (perhaps I clicked in Journal - I forget) (it pulsed and pulsed and never
 showed up, not even in the logs); when I did get terminal started (perhaps
 I clicked in Home View - I forget); when I ran 'olpc-log' (I've seen *it*
 disappear at least once in the past, but this time it completed);  when I
 got back to the system some hours later.]

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