Bug 455001

Summary: Update Applet throws "Failed to update system" message
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux>
Component: PackageKitAssignee: Robin Norwood <robin.norwood>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: lmacken, richard
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Whiteboard: /tmp/gpk-update-viewer.strace.log
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Description Denys Vlasenko 2008-07-11 11:32:19 UTC 
This happens on almost freshly installed Fedora 9. PackageKit Update Applet
0.1.12 icon appears shortly after boot and says "There are 62 updates available"
(in tooltip). I press on it and select "Update system now". The error message
box appears with the following text:

Failed to update system
The error was:
org.freedesktop.packagekit.update-system auth_admin_keep_always

If I run System -> Administration -> Update System program (IOW:
gpk-update-viewer), I see the list of updates available but clicking on [Update
system] button does nothing.

I am attaching the result of 

strace -tt -f -s 999 -o gpk-update-viewer.strace.log gpk-update-viewer

In the log, the moment I press [Update system] button is after this poll() call
- I waited for several seconds before pressing it in order to make it easier to
find it in strace:

...
3351  13:27:30.721970 poll(...
3351  13:27:36.706606 read(7, ....
...

Hope this helps.
Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2008-07-11 11:35:00 UTC 
Created attachment 311564 [details]
strace log of gpk-update-viewer invocation
Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2008-07-11 12:32:45 UTC 
Are you logging in as the root user?
Comment 3 Denys Vlasenko 2008-07-11 13:58:17 UTC 
Yes.
Comment 4 Richard Hughes 2008-07-11 16:55:45 UTC 
Please see: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageKitFaq