Bug 1178259 - apper cannot install anything while yum works ok
Summary: apper cannot install anything while yum works ok
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1188600
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: apper
Version: 21
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rex Dieter
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-01-03 11:13 UTC by marin-fedora
Modified: 2015-02-09 12:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-02-09 12:39:40 UTC
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Description marin-fedora 2015-01-03 11:13:48 UTC
Description of problem: While trying to install anything with apper, it ends with an error popup that says "The package that is being modified was not found on your system or in any software origin.". When I try to install the same thing with yum, it works perfectly.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): apper-0.9.1-3.fc21.x86_64


How reproducible: always, tried on many different x86_64 machines with fedora 21 workstation (gnome) and fedora 21 KDE spin


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch apper (or equivalent in gnome if it's not KDE spin)
2. Try to install some packages

Actual results:
Popup window that says "The package that is being modified was not found on your system or in any software origin."

Expected results:
to install selected packages

Additional info:

Comment 1 Martin Kho 2015-02-05 12:03:41 UTC
Hi,

version 0.9.1-6 also fails on every attempt to install updates. To me, it looks like more an issue with PackageKit - wow what exceptional ;-)

I did the following:
$ sudo pkcon get-updates
"There are no updates available at this time."
$ sudo pkcon repo-list
...
 Enabled    fedora                    Fedora 21 - x86_64
 Disabled   fedora-debuginfo          Fedora 21 - x86_64 - Debug
 Enabled    fedora-source             Fedora 21 - Source <- huh?
...
 Enabled    updates                   Fedora 21 - x86_64 - Updates
 Disabled   updates-debuginfo         Fedora 21 - x86_64 - Updates - Debug
 Enabled    updates-source            Fedora 21 - Updates Source <- huh?

$ sudo pkcon refresh force
...
$ sudo pkcon get-updates
Same output as yum check-updates produced
$ sudo pkcon update
"Fatal error: cannot download p/python2-firewall-0.3.13-2.fc21.noarch.rpm to /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/updates/packages/: Cannot download p/python2-firewall-0.3.13-2.fc21.noarch.rpm: All mirrors were tried"

$ yum update succeded as expected. yum also reported the mirror error -"[Errno 14] HTTP Error 404 - Not Found" - but could find another one that was working. 

So pkcon's "All mirrors were tried" seems to be a fake message. With the current state of PackageKit I get a real deja vu feeling. When apper was called kpackagekitmanager there were some many times that kpackagekitmanager got broken by one or more changes in PackageKit. I happens again. IMHO, current Fedora's/kde's GUI update system is a mess.

Martin Kho

Comment 2 Lukáš Tinkl 2015-02-09 12:39:40 UTC
You need a newer libhif

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1188600 ***


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