Bug 1103470

Summary: No results when searching in GNOME Software app during background updates download
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins>
Component: gnome-softwareAssignee: Richard Hughes <rhughes>
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: kalevlember, rhughes
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Description Alan Jenkins 2014-06-01 09:14:22 UTC
Created attachment 901186 [details]
"No application found" screenshot

Description of problem:
    When I search inside the Software app, there are never any results.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
    gnome-software-3.10.4-2.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:
    always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open GNOME Software app
2. Choose e.g. Firefox, or some software shown under Picks, and enter its name in the search box
3. Press return.

Actual results:

"No application found" as per screenshot

Expected results:

Matching software should be listed.

Additional info:

1. This is a very recent install on my desktop.  It also happens on my laptop (also a fresh install, though not quite so recent).

2. Both systems download software through a caching proxy.  So I have edited some of the YUM config files.

3. "yum search firefox" works fine.

4. Software seems to work OK otherwise.  I can click in Categories and view & install software that way.

Comment 1 Alan Jenkins 2014-06-01 09:17:16 UTC
Aha!  An updates popup just appeared, and the search started working again.  So the problem seems to be that the search function silently breaks when updates are being found/downloaded silently in the background.

Comment 2 Kalev Lember 2014-06-01 09:30:03 UTC
Yes, it's a known shortcoming of the PackageKit yum backend that it can't do multiple things at the same time. In F20, PackageKit uses the yum backend, but in F21 we've switched to a hawkey backend which is going to give a much better experience: it's faster and allows doing things simultaneously.

Sadly, there's nothing we can do for F20 here since we've promised FESCo to keep using the yum backend there. Sorry!