(silentCheck) prevent checker process from crashing on 2008.1 and 2009.0

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/mdkapplet b/mdkapplet
index ca6fa703..9a417d61 100755
--- a/mdkapplet
+++ b/mdkapplet
@@ -578,7 +578,9 @@ sub silentCheck() {
         }
         checker_exit('locked') if $will_not_update_media;
 
-        my $is_it_a_devel_distro = is_it_a_devel_distro();
+        # prevent crashing on 2008.1 and 2009.0:
+        my $is_it_a_devel_distro = eval { is_it_a_devel_distro() };
+
         my $media = $is_it_a_devel_distro ? '-a' : '--update';
         if (!run_program::run('urpmi.update', $media, if_($root, "--urpmi-root=$root"))) {
             checker_exit('error_updating') if $will_not_update_media;
@@ -594,7 +596,13 @@ sub silentCheck() {
         # this eats 52Mb of RAM on 64bit:
         # (hence we do it in the forked helper so that the applet doesn't eat too much RAM)
         urpm::media::configure($urpm, if_(!$is_it_a_devel_distro, update => 1));
-        my @update_medias = get_update_medias($urpm);
+
+        # prevent crashing on 2008.1 and 2009.0:
+        my @update_medias = eval { get_update_medias($urpm) };
+        if ($@) {
+            @update_medias = grep { $_->{update} } @{$urpm->{media}};
+        }
+
         if (!@update_medias) {
 	    get_product_id();
 	    if ($product_id->{type} eq 'Enterprise' && $product_id->{product} eq 'Server') {