Bug #111874 MySQL Workbench Error when checking for updates

Description:
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ERROR
Unhandled exception: 'CheckForUpdateThread' object has no attribute 'isAlive'

Check the log for more details.

How to repeat:

1. Open MySQL Workbench 8.0.34
2. Check for updates
3. MySQL Workbench error pops up:

ERROR
Unhandled exception: 'CheckForUpdateThread' object has no attribute 'isAlive'

Check the log for more details.

Suggested fix:
02:28:32 [ERR][       pymforms]: Unhandled exception in Python code: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Workbench 8.0 CE\modules\wb_utils_grt.py", line 725, in checkForUpdatesCallback
    if self.isAlive():
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: 'CheckForUpdateThread' object has no attribute 'isAlive'

WB Log

Attachment: wb.log (application/octet-stream, text), 7.08 KiB.

Error Dialog

Attachment: Error.jpg (image/jpeg, text), 28.64 KiB.

This also was happening in v 8.0.33 also.

Hello Michael Britt,

Thank you for the bug report.
Imho this is duplicate of Bug #110786, please see Bug #110786.

Regards,
Ashwini Patil

This is a duplicate of 110786. 

Please close this issue.

Latest versions of Python changed the isAlive() attribute to is_alive(), edit the file C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Workbench 8.0 CE\modules\wb_utils_grt.py and change line 725 and change line 728 for if self.json: