Bug 450354

Summary:	packagekit won't open
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill C. Riemers <briemers>
Component:	gnome-packagekit	Assignee:	Robin Norwood <robin.norwood>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	richard
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Description Bill C. Riemers 2008-06-06 21:51:26 UTC

Description of problem:

When I click on Add/Remove programs I get an icon that says "Starting
Add/Remove" but then nothing ever starts.

This was working for me yesterday, the only thing that has changed is since
yesterday I logged out and rebooted my computer after installing the rawhide
version of packagekit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

gnome-packagekit-0.2.2-2.20080529.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Good question.  On my computer it reproduces simply by trying to open it.
2.
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Actual results:

Nothing happens.

Expected results:

Add/Remove program dialogue opens.

Additional info:

I am also having problems with gnome-panel, in that "edit menu" also fails to
open.  This problem might be related.

Comment 1 Bill C. Riemers 2008-06-06 21:57:54 UTC

This may be related to bug #450355.

Comment 2 Bill C. Riemers 2008-06-09 14:17:52 UTC

It looks like this is not related to bug #450355.  I recovered from that bug by
restoring my home directory from backup, but this problem persists.  I've tried
reverting back to version 0.1.12-12.20080430.fc9.  That version of packagekit
works normally.   So it looks like this problem only occurs in 0.2.2-2.20080529.

What is the command line to start packagekit from a terminal, so I can see if
there are any helpful diagnostic messages?

Bill

Comment 3 Bill C. Riemers 2008-06-09 14:50:54 UTC

OK.  I found the commandline.  It looks like there is a missing symbol.  My
guess is there is a dependency problem:

[docbill@hartnell ~]$ gpk-application
gpk-application: symbol lookup error: gpk-application: undefined symbol:
pk_control_new

Comment 4 Bill C. Riemers 2008-06-09 15:02:10 UTC

I managed to get the GUI to work again with:

 sudo yum update --enablerepo=rawhide yum-packagekit

This installed:

PackageKit-0.2.2-2.20080529.fc10.x86_64
yum-packagekit-0.2.2-2.20080529.fc10.x86_64
PackageKit-libs-0.2.2-2.20080529.fc10.x86_64

So this is obviously a dependency problem.  

gnome-packagekit-0.2.2-2.20080529.fc10.x86_64

needs to depend on versions of PackageKit-lib and PackageKit >= 0.2.2-2.20080529

Bill

Comment 5 Robin Norwood 2008-06-09 16:29:08 UTC

Thanks for the bug report - looks like the dep issue is fixed in
gnome-packagekit-0.2.3-2.20080609.fc10.i386, built a few minutes ago.