Bug 270301

Summary: update notifier icon doesn't work after first use
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: BobCat <bc98kinney>
Component: yum-updatesdAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description BobCat 2007-08-31 04:45:22 UTC
Description of problem:

After the first use of the puplet icon (in the notification area) to apply
updates, the system does not check for updates any more.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
[root@micron bob]# rpm -qa | grep yum
yum-metadata-parser-1.1.0-2.fc7
yum-3.2.2-1.fc7
yum-updatesd-3.2.2-1.fc7

How reproducible:
Consistently


Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Reboot system.
2.  Observe puplet icon.
3.  When icon and balloon indicate that updates are available, click
    icon/balloon to launch update program.
4.  Observe lack of puplet icon.
5.  Run "pup" as root.
6.  Pup finds updates, or lack thereof.

  
Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
Fedora 7
Kernel 2.6.22.4-65.fc7
This has been observed for several kernel revisions.

Comment 1 Tomasz Kepczynski 2007-09-15 19:06:21 UTC
It seems I have the same problem on CentOS5 with
yum-updatesd-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.2.noarch.
I know, it's not Fedora/RHEL but still worth noting
here.
I have setup email notifications. It looks like
yum-updatesd finds updates after it is restarted,
but fails to see them later on. I've observed
(using lsof) that yum-updatesd keeps quite a
few sockets open in CLOSE_WAIT state, and I guess
this may be the reason why it is stuck.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 14:10:35 UTC
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Comment 3 BobCat 2008-05-14 23:54:46 UTC
Since upgrading to Fedora 8, this behavior no longer occurs.  Apparently it's 
been fixed downstream.  Many thanks.