Bug 704092

Summary: software update does not find updates
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bonzo1834 <bz1834>
Component: gnome-packagekitAssignee: Richard Hughes <richard>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Bonzo1834 2011-05-12 07:13:00 UTC
Description of problem:
"Software Update" says "no updates" while yum says there are lots of them.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
how to find out? Software update window has no menu entry "about"

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start "Software Update" => it reports no updates
2. yum update => reports long list of updates
3. Start "Software Update" => it now shows the same list as yum

Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info: Machine is behind a www proxy which is entered in network-manager applet, gconf-editor => system/http_proxy, and dconf-editor => system/proxy/http

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2011-05-12 13:11:10 UTC
PackageKit doesn't refresh the repodata every time you do GetUpdates(), it allows the metadata to be as old as the session check interval. If you do "pkcon refresh-cache && pkcon get-updates" you'll always get the correct list.

Does running pkcon refresh-cache before getting the update list in the application fix things for you?

Comment 2 Bonzo1834 2011-05-12 15:07:13 UTC
refresh-cache is not supported by pkcon version 0.6.14 but 'pkcon refresh' works. I'm going to try it tomorrow when there will presumably be new updates.

Comment 3 Bonzo1834 2011-05-14 12:02:38 UTC
OK, same thing today: 
- booted into Fedora 15
- started 'Software Update' => no updates

$ pkcon refresh
...
The transaction failed: no-more-mirrors-to-try, failure: repodata/......-filelists.sqlite.bz2 from fedora: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

Whereas yum tried other mirrors successfully and came up with a list of updates.

Just wondering, is starting software updates first thing in the session an unusual usage pattern?

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Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2012-08-06 20:03:09 UTC
This message is a notice that Fedora 15 is now at end of life. Fedora 
has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 15. It is 
Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no 
longer maintained.  At this time, all open bugs with a Fedora 'version'
of '15' have been closed as WONTFIX.

(Please note: Our normal process is to give advanced warning of this 
occurring, but we forgot to do that. A thousand apologies.)

Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you
plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, feel free to reopen 
this bug and simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version.

Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that 
we were unable to fix it before Fedora 15 reached end of life. If you 
would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it 
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"Clone This Bug" (top right of this page) and open it against that 
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Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's 
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