Bug 1188207 - Apper won't check for updates even when user asks it to, and misses updates
Summary: Apper won't check for updates even when user asks it to, and misses updates
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: apper
Version: 21
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rex Dieter
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 1190970 1193520 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: pk-hif-features
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-02-02 10:46 UTC by Terry A. Hurlbut
Modified: 2019-09-12 08:13 UTC (History)
28 users (show)

Fixed In Version: apper-0.9.1-10.fc21
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-05-03 17:22:50 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
apper cache age support (2.45 KB, patch)
2015-04-27 17:48 UTC, Elia Devito
no flags Details | Diff
cache age for apper plasmoid (1.36 KB, patch)
2015-04-28 14:45 UTC, Elia Devito
no flags Details | Diff
new cache age patch (2.16 KB, patch)
2015-04-28 22:53 UTC, Elia Devito
no flags Details | Diff


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1189602 0 unspecified CLOSED PackagetKit reports no updates are available 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1190970 0 unspecified CLOSED PackageKit can't fetch update list 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1201938 0 unspecified CLOSED pkcon refresh uses infinite cache age by default, making it a noop 2021-12-10 14:28:28 UTC
Red Hat Bugzilla 1206760 0 unspecified CLOSED Plasma live session notifies for available updates 2021-02-22 00:41:40 UTC

Internal Links: 1189602 1190970 1201938 1206760

Description Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-02-02 10:46:54 UTC
Description of problem: fails to notify user of new updates, and abruptly halts any user-ordered check for new updates, even when such updates exist.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.9.1-6.fc21


How reproducible: Either start system 24 hours after running "yum update" (the only reliable way left to check for and install updates), run "Software Updater" in system tray, or run "check for new updates" option in apper.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open apper.
2. Select "Updates."
3. Click "Check for updates" button.

Or:

1. Click on "Software Updater" in system tray.
2. Click "Check for new updates."

Actual results:
Within a fraction of a second, apper abruptly stops checking for updates.

Apper insists system is up to date.

Running "yum update" in CLI typically will check for and install updates though apper never even knew those updates were available.

Expected results:

Apper should notice new updates at system startup, especially 24 hours or longer after the last update check. It does not. And when I ask it to check updates it should not quit the check before it even gets started.


Additional info:

I have only one workaround. I have had to abandon apper, start a Konsole instance, and run "sudo yum update" either on startup or just before shutdown or both, to keep my system up to date. This works, but why should I even keep apper around if it will not do this thing by itself?

This has been going on for a week. It started one day before the "push" of the current version. The update of apper, which I accomplished with yum, did not solve the problem.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2015-02-02 13:41:30 UTC
Instead of 'yum update', what does 'pkcon update' say?

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2015-02-02 14:59:20 UTC
Someone on irc confirmed this same issue and 'pkcon update' didn't work for them either, so let's bounce this over to PackageKit for now.

Comment 3 Enrico Tagliavini 2015-02-02 15:07:21 UTC
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #2)
> Someone on irc confirmed this same issue and 'pkcon update' didn't work for
> them either, so let's bounce this over to PackageKit for now.

For the reference that was me.

Comment 4 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-02-02 15:48:24 UTC
The commend "pkcon update" simply says, "Finished. No packages require update." Now that might mean nothing at the moment, because I recently ran a yum update. But that command ran awfully quickly, as if it wasn't going to check a thing.

Comment 5 marc-schmitzer 2015-02-02 20:42:30 UTC
I'm seeing the same issue here (F21). I've traced the issue a little, and there seem to be two problems:

 - The errorCode function in /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids/org.packagekit.updater/contents/ui/main.qml is invoked, but this fails because the "error" parameter is not declared. The following message appears in ~/.xsession-errors:

plasma-desktop(1427) DeclarativeAppletScript::signalHandlerException: Exception caught:  QVariant(QVariantMap, QMap(("expressionBeginOffset", QVariant(int, 134) ) ( "expressionCaretOffset" ,  QVariant(int, 139) ) ( "expressionEndOffset" ,  QVariant(int, 139) ) ( "fileName" ,  QVariant(QString, "file:///usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids/org.packagekit.updater/contents/ui/main.qml") ) ( "lineNumber" ,  QVariant(int, 120) ) ( "message" ,  QVariant(QString, "Can't find variable: error") ) ( "sourceId" ,  QVariant(int, -1720018160) ) )  )

 - If this is fixed, we learn that the update fails because of an "unknown error".

Comment 6 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-02-03 03:11:16 UTC
I just verified: the command "pkcon update" does nothing. It starts, then it "finishes." It sees nothing to update.

But yum update just updated thirty-nine packages.

I tried it on two different computers. Same or similar results on both. Both run F21.

Comment 7 marc-schmitzer 2015-02-16 19:57:02 UTC
I just got "pkconf refresh" to take more than a second (i.e. to actually do something) by deleting /var/cache/PackageKit beforehand. So maybe there's a cache invalidation/cache age issue with PackageKit or the backend.

Comment 8 marc-schmitzer 2015-02-16 20:44:49 UTC
I think I've got an idea of what is going on. Since d90ecb799b7d9dd03175e0c42f83908dab50c4cd, the cache age in (some places in) Packagekit defaults to infinity (GUINT_MAX). But Apperd calls the refresh cache method without setting a cache age hint, so maybe this is why no update is triggered.

Comment 9 john getsoian 2015-02-17 03:12:59 UTC
Also seeing this behavior, also no effect from pkconf. On last try this morning apper ran instantly (from KDE in Fedora 21), claimed system was up to date, and then YUM installed over 250 updates. Am running Fedora 21 with KDE on both a P7P55 MB based desktop and a Lenovo T420s laptop and both are showing identical issue.

The first time I saw this behavior I noted that the package databases were empty in both /var/cache/yum and /var/cache/PackageKit. The yum databases have rebuilt themselves (I also ran Yum makecache at one point) but the /var/cache/PackageKit/metadata/fedora/packages - along with the other repository /package dirs under PackageKit, are still empty - don't know if that is normal one way or the other.

Comment 10 Martin Kho 2015-02-18 11:00:29 UTC
Hi,

This looks definitely like a PackageKit issue. Only a 'pkcon refresh force' makes PackageKit find new updates. See also bug report [1]

Martin Kho


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1193520

Comment 11 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-02-19 12:03:45 UTC
This morning (19 February 2015, at about 1025 UTC) I ran "sudo pkcon refresh force" and got an updates-available indication in my "systray." (I use KDE.) But when I then tried to run the update, it choked on this problem: one of the packages needed to be obsoleted (qma2, IIRC) and pkcon couldn't handle that. So I had to run the update with yum. Then I had to rerun "pkcon refresh force" to make the update indication go away.

This might give a clue to the problem with pkcon. At the same time, it points out another flaw the program has long had. It cannot always handle every update scenario. Some common (though not "everyday") problems cause it to fail, often for days, if not weeks. Not all users will know to run "yum update" when this sort of thing happens.

Comment 12 Kevin Kofler 2015-02-19 13:17:53 UTC
Obsoletes used to just work with PackageKit-yum, this seems to be yet another regression from PackageKit-hif.

Comment 13 bug_fedora 2015-03-05 18:28:19 UTC
I am also experiencing this problem for at least the last 6 weeks or more.  Has any progress been made toward a resolution?

Comment 14 Paulo Fessel 2015-03-10 20:10:30 UTC
*** Bug 1193520 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15 Paulo Fessel 2015-03-10 20:11:44 UTC
I've marked my report as duplicate of this bug, the symptoms are exactly the same and it's definitely related to PackageKit.

Comment 16 Rex Dieter 2015-03-11 01:03:47 UTC
Richard, any advice here?

Should we follow the evidence in comment #8 and look into explicitly setting cache age somehow?

(that won't help fix the 'pkcon update' simple case, however)

Comment 17 Tomáš Trnka 2015-03-13 21:44:54 UTC
I've opened bug 1201938 for the "pkcon refresh" version of this problem. Until it is fixed, one needs to specify a reasonable cache age to make pkcon refresh do something, e.g. "pkcon -c 86400 refresh".

Comment 18 bug_fedora 2015-03-14 21:58:42 UTC
Something happened today that *seems like it might have fixed this*.  

I pulled the following updates using sudo yum update:

sudo yum history list 11
Loaded plugins: langpacks
ID     | Command line             | Date and time    | Action(s)      | Altered
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    11 | update                   | 2015-03-14 12:48 | E, I, U        |   31 EE
Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
 sudo yum history info 11
Loaded plugins: langpacks
Transaction ID : 11
Begin time     : Sat Mar 14 12:48:41 2015
Begin rpmdb    : 1670:f9903bf8ac035ed04d2a7be1df90f2a00b9cb74a
End time       :            12:50:07 2015 (86 seconds)
End rpmdb      : 1671:53cc99bc59a338e1764e7b4143ad013ebe4e7d48 **
User           : Jim <kd1yv3>
Return-Code    : Success
Command Line   : update
Transaction performed with:
    Installed     rpm-4.12.0.1-4.fc21.x86_64               @updates
    Installed     yum-3.4.3-153.fc21.noarch                @koji-override-0/$releasever
    Installed     yum-metadata-parser-1.1.4-14.fc21.x86_64 @koji-override-0/$releasever
Packages Altered:
adobe-linux-x86_64                                                                                                     |  951 B  00:00:00     
adobe-linux-x86_64/primary                                                                                             | 1.2 kB  00:00:00     
adobe-linux-x86_64                                                                                                                        2/2
    Updated     NetworkManager-openconnect-0.9.8.6-2.fc21.x86_64        ?
    Update                                 0.9.10.2-1.fc21.x86_64       @updates
    Updated     NetworkManager-vpnc-1:0.9.9.0-6.git20140428.fc21.x86_64 @koji-override-0/$releasever
    Update                          1:0.9.10.2-1.fc21.x86_64            @updates
    Updated     appstream-data-21-19.fc21.noarch                        ?
    Update                     21-20.fc21.noarch                        @updates
    Updated     colord-1.2.9-1.fc21.x86_64                              @updates
    Update             1.2.9-2.fc21.x86_64                              @updates
    Updated     colord-libs-1.2.9-1.fc21.x86_64                         @updates
    Update                  1.2.9-2.fc21.x86_64                         @updates
    Updated     cups-filters-1.0.58-1.fc21.x86_64                       @koji-override-0/$releasever
    Update                   1.0.66-1.fc21.x86_64                       @updates
    Updated     cups-filters-libs-1.0.58-1.fc21.x86_64                  @koji-override-0/$releasever
    Update                        1.0.66-1.fc21.x86_64                  @updates
    Updated     gnutls-3.3.12-1.fc21.x86_64                             @updates
    Update             3.3.13-1.fc21.x86_64                             @updates
    Erase       kernel-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64                           ?
    Install     kernel-3.18.9-200.fc21.x86_64                           @updates
    Erase       kernel-core-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64                      ?
    Install     kernel-core-3.18.9-200.fc21.x86_64                      @updates
    Erase       kernel-modules-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64                   ?
    Install     kernel-modules-3.18.9-200.fc21.x86_64                   @updates
    Erase       kernel-modules-extra-3.17.8-300.fc21.x86_64             ?
    Install     kernel-modules-extra-3.18.9-200.fc21.x86_64             @updates
    Updated     krb5-libs-1.12.2-9.fc21.x86_64                          @koji-override-0/$releasever
    Update                1.12.2-14.fc21.x86_64                         @updates
    Updated     libgpg-error-1.13-3.fc21.x86_64                         @koji-override-0/$releasever
    Update                   1.17-2.fc21.x86_64                         @updates
    Updated     librsvg2-2.40.7-1.fc21.x86_64                           @updates
    Update               2.40.8-1.fc21.x86_64                           @updates
    Dep-Install lz4-r127-1.fc21.x86_64                                  @updates
    Updated     openconnect-7.03-1.fc21.x86_64                          ?
    Update                  7.05-1.fc21.x86_64                          @updates
    Updated     perl-Date-Manip-6.48-1.fc21.noarch                      ?
    Update                      6.49-1.fc21.noarch                      @updates
    Updated     perl-Getopt-Long-2.43-1.fc21.noarch                     @updates
    Update                       2.45-1.fc21.noarch                     @updates
    Updated     perl-List-AllUtils-0.09-1.fc21.noarch                   @fedora
    Update                         0.09-2.fc21.noarch                   @updates
    Updated     poppler-0.26.2-6.fc21.x86_64                            ?
    Update              0.26.2-7.fc21.x86_64                            @updates
    Updated     poppler-glib-0.26.2-6.fc21.x86_64                       ?
    Update                   0.26.2-7.fc21.x86_64                       @updates
    Updated     poppler-qt-0.26.2-6.fc21.x86_64                         ?
    Update                 0.26.2-7.fc21.x86_64                         @updates
    Updated     poppler-utils-0.26.2-6.fc21.x86_64                      ?
    Update                    0.26.2-7.fc21.x86_64                      @updates
    Updated     qemu-guest-agent-2:2.1.3-2.fc21.x86_64                  @updates
    Update                       2:2.1.3-3.fc21.x86_64                  @updates
    Updated     webkitgtk3-2.4.8-1.fc21.x86_64                          ?
    Update                 2.4.8-2.fc21.x86_64                          @updates
    Updated     wget-1.16.2-1.fc21.x86_64                               @updates
    Update           1.16.3-1.fc21.x86_64                               @updates
Scriptlet output:
   1 warning: /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf created as /etc/cups/cups-browsed.conf.rpmnew

===
From that list, appstream-data looks like it may be related.

I also manually tried to install a package using rpm.  

sudo rpm -Uvh /multimedia/isos/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm 

I doubt that this is related; however the 1 package that Apper is now reporting as available to install is flash plugin Adobe Flash Player 11.2 .  That is coincidentally the same package that I was trying to update with the rpm command.

Is this a permanent fix, or just a coincidence?

JimR

Comment 19 bug_fedora 2015-03-18 15:04:10 UTC
Looks like I spoke too soon.  Apper still only shows that 1 single update, but yum shows dozens now.

==============================================================================================================================================
 Package                                    Arch                  Version                             Repository                         Size
==============================================================================================================================================
Updating:
 flash-plugin                               x86_64                11.2.202.451-release                adobe-linux-x86_64                6.9 M
 gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free                x86_64                1.4.5-2.fc21                        updates                           1.5 M
 kcm_colors                                 x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           154 k
 kde-style-oxygen                           x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           452 k
 kde-workspace                              x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           9.8 M
 kde-workspace-libs                         x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           595 k
 kgreeter-plugins                           x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           102 k
 khotkeys                                   x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           314 k
 khotkeys-libs                              x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           160 k
 kinfocenter                                x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           600 k
 kmenuedit                                  x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           371 k
 ksysguard                                  x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           301 k
 ksysguard-libs                             x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           254 k
 ksysguardd                                 x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           122 k
 ktp-auth-handler                           x86_64                0.9.0-1.fc21.1                      updates                           102 k
 kwin                                       x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           2.4 M
 kwin-libs                                  x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           234 k
 libgcrypt                                  x86_64                1.6.3-1.fc21                        updates                           373 k
 libgudev1                                  x86_64                216-21.fc21                         updates                            60 k
 libkworkspace                              x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                           118 k
 liveusb-creator                            noarch                3.13.3-1.fc21                       updates                           254 k
 plasma-scriptengine-python                 x86_64                4.11.16-3.fc21                      updates                            93 k
 python-blivet                              noarch                1:0.61.15-1.fc21                    updates                           686 k
 rpm                                        x86_64                4.12.0.1-5.fc21                     updates                           500 k
 rpm-build-libs                             x86_64                4.12.0.1-5.fc21                     updates                           110 k
 rpm-libs                                   x86_64                4.12.0.1-5.fc21                     updates                           275 k
 rpm-plugin-selinux                         x86_64                4.12.0.1-5.fc21                     updates                            48 k
 rpm-plugin-systemd-inhibit                 x86_64                4.12.0.1-5.fc21                     updates                            48 k
 rpm-python                                 x86_64                4.12.0.1-5.fc21                     updates                            90 k
 systemd                                    x86_64                216-21.fc21                         updates                           5.2 M
 systemd-compat-libs                        x86_64                216-21.fc21                         updates                           126 k
 systemd-libs                               x86_64                216-21.fc21                         updates                           322 k
 systemd-python                             x86_64                216-21.fc21                         updates                            93 k
 systemd-python3                            x86_64                216-21.fc21                         updates                            95 k

Transaction Summary
==============================================================================================================================================
Upgrade  34 Packages

Comment 20 bug_fedora 2015-03-23 03:34:43 UTC
Is there anything that I an provide to aid in resolution?

Comment 21 The Source 2015-04-09 04:32:31 UTC
*** Bug 1190970 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22 bug_fedora 2015-04-09 05:46:14 UTC
Now that we have multiple other reports, will this get any priority?

Comment 23 Gerard van der Veen 2015-04-25 09:37:08 UTC
I noted that the apper and the automatic update modules only propose fc21 updates for installed fc20 (or perhaps lower) packages. In the update comparison mechanism apparently only the release level is taken into account and not the version within the release. 

How to reproduce:
download some fc20 packages
in my case I took gramps-4.0.3-1.fc20.noarch.rpm and gramps-common-4.0.3-1.fc20.noarch.rpm and did a localinstall of both in my fc21 system

gramps works fine (the fc21 version did not which is the reason for this attempt)

-now apper in 'updates' will propose fc21 versions
-some time after every system start the automatic update will show the two fc21 versions as available updates

Comment 24 Elia Devito 2015-04-27 10:17:18 UTC
the bug is due to this commit: https://github.com/hughsie/PackageKit/commit/1615ace6ea5f3348ab8c76b713809bbe5a450d23

Comment 25 Richard Hughes 2015-04-27 11:17:23 UTC
(In reply to marc-schmitzer from comment #8)
> Packagekit defaults to infinity (GUINT_MAX). But Apperd calls the refresh
> cache method without setting a cache age hint, so maybe this is why no
> update is triggered.

Apper needs to set cache-age both when doing GetUpdates and also when doing RefreshCache (which you don't really need to use these days); we can't have a heuristic that works well without this extra data. If you're checking every 24h for updates, 24h for a cache age would make sense (unless you're clicking a button for a manual refresh, when 10mins would be better), but the daemon can't guess when things are "new enough" to return results without downloading 100's of megs of metadata.

Comment 26 Kamil Páral 2015-04-27 11:25:13 UTC
Reassigning to apper per comment 25.

Comment 27 Elia Devito 2015-04-27 17:48:30 UTC
Created attachment 1019399 [details]
apper cache age support

this patch set the cache age for the user refresh request to 1 second
and to 1 hour for the apperd daemon

you find a patched version of apper here:https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/scorpionit/apper/

Comment 28 Rex Dieter 2015-04-27 19:29:09 UTC
Thanks for the patch, going with 10min/1hr (instead of 1sec/1hr) which is closer to what hughsie recommended.

Comment 29 Fedora Update System 2015-04-28 02:28:46 UTC
apper-0.9.1-9.fc22 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 22.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/apper-0.9.1-9.fc22

Comment 30 Elia Devito 2015-04-28 14:45:26 UTC
Created attachment 1019723 [details]
cache age for apper plasmoid

This patch add cache-age (10 minutes) to apper plasmoid

Comment 31 Rex Dieter 2015-04-28 15:01:37 UTC
Thanks!

Comment 32 Elia Devito 2015-04-28 15:14:02 UTC
to build on fedora 21 require kwin-libs and kwin-gles-libs

Comment 33 Paulo Fessel 2015-04-28 16:14:15 UTC
(In reply to Fedora Update System from comment #29)
> apper-0.9.1-9.fc22 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 22.
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/apper-0.9.1-9.fc22

What about Fedora 21? I still have the same problems there.

Comment 34 Rex Dieter 2015-04-28 16:43:15 UTC
Currently fighting f21 build failures (lagely) due to bug #1207945

Comment 35 Rex Dieter 2015-04-28 18:53:13 UTC
Elia, thanks for the patches, dantti (upstream apper dev) had some feedback on irc:

[13:47] <dantti> rdieter: ... instead of using the global Daemon::setHints().. I would suggest using the m_transaction->setHints()
[13:47] <dantti> and using the % operator instead of + 

would you mind reworking the fix with these suggestions in mind?

Comment 36 Elia Devito 2015-04-28 22:53:54 UTC
Created attachment 1019908 [details]
new cache age patch


- replaced  + operator with %
- moved sizeHints from ApperKCM to PkTransaction (in this way the plasmoid patch are not required yet)

If I replace Daemon::sizeHints() with m_transaction->setHints() the sizeHints are ignored...
probably I am doing something wrong but I don't have idea how to resolve this :-( 

sorry for my english

Comment 37 Fedora Update System 2015-04-29 10:44:32 UTC
apper-0.9.1-10.fc21 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 21.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/apper-0.9.1-10.fc21

Comment 38 Fedora Update System 2015-04-29 12:58:08 UTC
Package apper-0.9.1-10.fc22:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing apper-0.9.1-10.fc22'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-7088/apper-0.9.1-9.fc22
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 39 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-05-02 10:35:34 UTC
I'm watching the comments for the F22 and F21 packages.

It would seem that the fix works well on F22 but *not* on F21.

I'm still waiting for the release of F22. Since I'm still on F21, the suggested command

su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing apper-0.9.1-10.fc22'

returns "No package available" on my systems.

Comment 40 Rex Dieter 2015-05-02 14:02:54 UTC
Try instead:
su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing apper'

Comment 41 Colin J Thomson 2015-05-02 22:46:30 UTC
I have been testing apper-0.9.1-10.fc21.x86_64 and apper is not showing updates even when ran manually it says no updates are available. When I first installed 0.9.1-10 it failed to find any updates. On the next system restart Apper did show some updates but this happened only once and since then no updates are shown. DNF and Yum show many updates.

Comment 42 bug_fedora 2015-05-03 05:13:19 UTC
I am running FC21, so I just substituted 21 into the command
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing apper-0.9.1-10.fc22'

I ran this on my engineering machine yesterday.  It pulled a list of a few dozen updates, including the one for apper.  Those installed (except for one, which could not find  the package on the mirror, but did not seem related to apper). itself.

Meantime, tonight that machine is reporting new updates are available.  So excited, I haven't seen that in months!

About to run the original update on my FC21 Production Machine.

Comment 43 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-05-03 10:26:42 UTC
I installed the apper update yesterday at about 1300 UTC. This morning I started two F21 systems and waited. Five minutes later I ran:

$ sudo pkcon refresh force

and got notices of 11 or 13 updates, depending on the system. And once again I had to run that command from konsole to get news of the updates. Once I had them, I could install them in the usual way.

This is how I have been running my system since this issue first appeared. So that update seems to have changed nothing.

Comment 44 Paulo Fessel 2015-05-03 14:23:29 UTC
In my case it's worse: even after running pkcon refresh force, apper gives does not show packages to be updated; the only way to update the system is running yum update, which always works.

Comment 45 bug_fedora 2015-05-03 16:56:45 UTC
(In reply to bug_fedora from comment #42)
> I am running FC21, so I just substituted 21 into the command

> About to run the original update on my FC21 Production Machine.

Yes, it worked correctly on my Prod Machine as well.

Comment 46 Fedora Update System 2015-05-03 17:22:50 UTC
apper-0.9.1-10.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 47 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-05-04 11:51:28 UTC
I'm still using F21, and the problems with apper persist. Maybe when the upgrade team releases F22 I'll see some relief. But I still have to run "pkcon refresh force" as a superuser to see any updates, even twenty-four hours later.

Comment 48 Sergio Basto 2015-05-04 17:03:51 UTC
(In reply to Terry A. Hurlbut from comment #47)
> I'm still using F21, and the problems with apper persist. Maybe when the
> upgrade team releases F22 I'll see some relief. But I still have to run
> "pkcon refresh force" as a superuser to see any updates, even twenty-four
> hours later.

Please try : 

pkcon repair
pkcon -c -1 refresh force


(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #40)
> Try instead:
> su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing apper'

this also updates to me kde-runtime.x86_64 and kde dependencies and it is working (I done a reboot )

Comment 49 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-05-04 17:30:51 UTC
(In reply to Sergio Monteiro Basto from comment #48)
> (In reply to Terry A. Hurlbut from comment #47)
> > I'm still using F21, and the problems with apper persist. Maybe when the
> > upgrade team releases F22 I'll see some relief. But I still have to run
> > "pkcon refresh force" as a superuser to see any updates, even twenty-four
> > hours later.
> 
> Please try : 
> 
> pkcon repair
> pkcon -c -1 refresh force
> 
> 
> (In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #40)
> > Try instead:
> > su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing apper'
> 
> this also updates to me kde-runtime.x86_64 and kde dependencies and it is
> working (I done a reboot )

Herewith the output:

$ sudo pkcon repair
[sudo] password for Temlakos: 
FIXME: need to call pk_progress_bar_start() earlier![=========================]         
Finished                      [=========================]         
                              [=========================]         
Finished                      [=========================]         
[Temlakos@temlakos ~]$ sudo pkcon -c -1 refresh force
Refreshing cache              [=========================]         
Waiting for authentication    [=========================]         
Downloading repository information[=========================]         
Loading cache                 [=========================]         
Downloading repository information[=========================]         
Loading cache                 [=========================]         
Downloading repository information[=========================]         
Loading cache                 [=========================]         
Finished                      [=========================]

No updates listed, but it might be too soon for that anyway.

Comment 50 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-05-06 02:02:00 UTC
Today, at about 1800 UTC (give or take an hour), one of my systems pulled down two tzdata package updates without my having to "force" a "pkcon refresh." I knew those were out there, because my other system already had them.

Now I'm waiting to see what other updates it will take, and when, and how long I have to wait for them.

Should I have to wait twenty-four hours?

Comment 51 john getsoian 2015-05-06 06:30:49 UTC
FC21 repair seems to have worked here. Installed apper update yesterday with repair and refresh, this evening system pulled down about 20 new updates. After updating via KDE 'SystemSettings', "yum update" showed no pending updates.

Comment 52 Paulo Fessel 2015-05-06 14:54:24 UTC
No luck here, with FC21. First run apper, check for updates. "Your system is updated, checked 5 hrs ago". Then run "pkcon update", "No packages require update at this time". Run "yum -y update", bazinga:

[pfessel@wotan ~]$ sudo yum -y update
[sudo] senha para pfessel: 
Plugins carregados: langpacks, remove-with-leaves, show-leaves
Resolvendo dependências
--> Executando verificação da transação
---> O pacote libmediainfo.x86_64 0:0.7.73-1.fc21 será atualizado
---> O pacote libmediainfo.x86_64 0:0.7.73-2.fc21 será uma atualização
---> O pacote libzen.x86_64 0:0.4.31-1.fc21 será atualizado
---> O pacote libzen.x86_64 0:0.4.31-2.fc21 será uma atualização
---> O pacote mediainfo.x86_64 0:0.7.73-1.fc21 será atualizado
---> O pacote mediainfo.x86_64 0:0.7.73-2.fc21 será uma atualização
---> O pacote mediainfo-gui.x86_64 0:0.7.73-1.fc21 será atualizado
---> O pacote mediainfo-gui.x86_64 0:0.7.73-2.fc21 será uma atualização
---> O pacote tzdata.noarch 0:2015c-1.fc21 será atualizado
---> O pacote tzdata.noarch 0:2015d-1.fc21 será uma atualização
---> O pacote tzdata-java.noarch 0:2015c-1.fc21 será atualizado
---> O pacote tzdata-java.noarch 0:2015d-1.fc21 será uma atualização
--> Resolução de dependências finalizada

Proabley the tzdata* files are the same john getsoian referred to on previous (#51) comment.

Comment 53 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-05-06 14:58:43 UTC
I mentioned the tzdata packages. Yes, they are the ones. Did you try the "pkcon repair" and "pkcon -c -1 refresh force" commands from comment 48?

Comment 54 Paulo Fessel 2015-05-06 15:38:01 UTC
Yes, gone there, did that. Should I try it again?

Comment 55 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-05-06 17:25:28 UTC
Try it once more, then wait forty-eight hours. Then report your findings. That's my plan.

Comment 56 Fedora Update System 2015-05-08 07:25:16 UTC
apper-0.9.1-10.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 57 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-05-08 10:47:13 UTC
After forty-eight hours without an update notice, I ran the pkcon repair and refresh commands again. No updates found. I ran this test at about 0939 UTC.

Then I ran yum -y update, and still found no updates.

So maybe this works properly after all.

Comment 58 Rex Dieter 2015-05-08 10:49:51 UTC
Re: comment 57

if pkcon commands don't work, then no PK client will, and it's not *this* bug, but something else.

Comment 59 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-05-08 10:53:58 UTC
I don't mean to say the commands do not work. I do suggest the test is inconclusive, since yum update found no packages for update, either. That suggest the system was up-to-date, anyway.

Comment 60 Terry A. Hurlbut 2015-05-09 18:20:49 UTC
This morning at about 05:31 EDT (or 09:31 UTC), my two F21 systems each showed about thirty-odd updates--without my having to specify any line commands. They all installed properly.

Comment 61 Colin J Thomson 2015-05-11 20:52:03 UTC
I Had to run "pkcon repair" and "pkcon -c -1 refresh force" twice over ~48 hours and since then update notifications seem to be working fine now. Matching the same package updates listed by yum and dnf.

Comment 62 Colin J Thomson 2015-05-17 19:20:39 UTC
Well it still not 100% reliably working.. Yumex-dnf popped up in the tray showing updates are available, checking apper manually showed none. I had to use "pkcon refresh force" for apper to show the updates.

Comment 63 3ndymion 2015-06-06 12:43:25 UTC
This problem still exists.  I have done a clean install of Fedora 22 KDE "stable" multiple times, & have come across this problem.  Neither Apper nor dnf can pull updates, no matter how many times a manual update is attempted, & no matter how much time goes by.  This goes on for days.

I just tried "pkcon refresh force", & that seems to have worked for Apper.  Apper can finally update packages, but dnf still doesn't see the updates.

Comment 64 Paul Lipps 2015-06-06 21:53:04 UTC
I see the same issue. Apper sees updates that DNF does not see.

Comment 65 Enrico Tagliavini 2015-06-06 22:43:50 UTC
(In reply to Paul Lipps from comment #64)
> I see the same issue. Apper sees updates that DNF does not see.

We that's a different issue you might want to open a new issue.

That said did you tried dnf update --refresh ?

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