Bug 466386

Summary:	PackageKit can't install (missing dbus interface?)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	James Antill <james.antill>
Component:	PackageKit	Assignee:	Robin Norwood <robin.norwood>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	alex, lmacken, rhughes, richard, robin.norwood, tuxbrewr
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Description James Antill 2008-10-10 00:05:41 UTC

Description of problem:
 After asking PackageKit to install a bunch of things, packagekit brought up a box that said:

"""
Method "InstallPackages" with signature "as" on interface "org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction" doesn't exist
"""

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

% yum list installed '*packagekit*'
Installed Packages
PackageKit.x86_64                    0.3.6-2.fc10               installed       
PackageKit-libs.x86_64               0.3.6-2.fc10               installed       
PackageKit-udev-helper.x86_64        0.3.6-2.fc10               installed       
PackageKit-yum.x86_64                0.3.6-2.fc10               installed       
PackageKit-yum-plugin.x86_64         0.3.6-2.fc10               installed       
gnome-packagekit.x86_64              0.3.6-2.fc10               installed

Comment 1 James Antill 2008-10-10 00:07:31 UTC

 The above probably requires a lot of s/packagekit/gnome-packagekit/ as it was from gpk-application ... but I assume the problem is not gnome-packagekit specific.

Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2008-10-10 17:38:52 UTC

EEek. That looks like the daemon crashed. Could you try reproducing with /usr/sbin/packagekitd under gdb please? Thanks.

Comment 3 Alex Lancaster 2008-10-14 02:13:16 UTC

I can duplicate the same problem when using the plugin installer helper.

1. use totem to try to play a file without a codec.
2. click "Search" to locate plugin
3. it finds gstreamer-plugins-bad
4. click to install
5. enter authorization details
6. comes up with "Installing Packages" progress bar
7. suddenly halts with a "Failed to install package" with the following in the details:

Method "InstallPackages" with signature "as" on interface "org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction" doesn't exist


$ rpm -q PackageKit
PackageKit-0.3.6-3.fc10.i386

Comment 4 Richard Hughes 2008-10-14 08:44:05 UTC

It works for me, but it's good it's reproducable as I can give you some more instructions :-)

Can you (as root) do:

killall packagekitd
/usr/sbin/packagekitd --verbose --disable-timer

and then try to reproduce the crash? You should have a metric ton of debugging output, please can you save it _all_ and attach it to this bug. Hopefully (?!) the daemon crashes, and we see what it was doing.

Thanks.

Comment 5 Alex Lancaster 2008-10-14 10:02:08 UTC

Next time I tried doing it (after a reboot) it worked as advertised.  Reproducing it could be a little tricky, but if it comes up again, I'll try the debugging steps.

Comment 6 Richard Hughes 2008-10-26 16:35:10 UTC

Okay, thanks.

Comment 7 Richard Hughes 2008-11-06 11:01:28 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 469950 ***