Bug 1178259

Summary:	apper cannot install anything while yum works ok
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	marin-fedora <marin.bistricic.fedora>
Component:	apper	Assignee:	Rex Dieter <rdieter>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	21	CC:	dantti12, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, rh-bugzilla, rhughes, smparrish
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Last Closed:	2015-02-09 12:39:40 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description marin-fedora 2015-01-03 11:13:48 UTC

Description of problem: While trying to install anything with apper, it ends with an error popup that says "The package that is being modified was not found on your system or in any software origin.". When I try to install the same thing with yum, it works perfectly.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): apper-0.9.1-3.fc21.x86_64


How reproducible: always, tried on many different x86_64 machines with fedora 21 workstation (gnome) and fedora 21 KDE spin


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch apper (or equivalent in gnome if it's not KDE spin)
2. Try to install some packages

Actual results:
Popup window that says "The package that is being modified was not found on your system or in any software origin."

Expected results:
to install selected packages

Additional info:

Comment 1 Martin Kho 2015-02-05 12:03:41 UTC

Hi,

version 0.9.1-6 also fails on every attempt to install updates. To me, it looks like more an issue with PackageKit - wow what exceptional ;-)

I did the following:
$ sudo pkcon get-updates
"There are no updates available at this time."
$ sudo pkcon repo-list
...
Enabled fedora Fedora 21 - x86_64
Disabled fedora-debuginfo Fedora 21 - x86_64 - Debug
Enabled fedora-source Fedora 21 - Source <- huh?
...
Enabled updates Fedora 21 - x86_64 - Updates
Disabled updates-debuginfo Fedora 21 - x86_64 - Updates - Debug
Enabled updates-source Fedora 21 - Updates Source <- huh?

$ sudo pkcon refresh force
...
$ sudo pkcon get-updates
Same output as yum check-updates produced
$ sudo pkcon update
"Fatal error: cannot download p/python2-firewall-0.3.13-2.fc21.noarch.rpm to /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/: Cannot download p/python2-firewall-0.3.13-2.fc21.noarch.rpm: All mirrors were tried"

$ yum update succeded as expected. yum also reported the mirror error -"[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found" - but could find another one that was working.

So pkcon's "All mirrors were tried" seems to be a fake message. With the current state of PackageKit I get a real deja vu feeling. When apper was called kpackagekitmanager there were some many times that kpackagekitmanager got broken by one or more changes in PackageKit. I happens again. IMHO, current Fedora's/kde's GUI update system is a mess.

Martin Kho

Comment 2 Lukáš Tinkl 2015-02-09 12:39:40 UTC

You need a newer libhif

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1188600 ***