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Description of problem: the pkcon command gives this result Non è stato possibile contattare PackageKit: Errore nel chiamare StartServiceByName per org.freedesktop.PackageKit: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Activation of org.freedesktop.PackageKit timed out if I write "systemctl status packagekit.service -l" to know the status of the packagekit service I get this output: $ systemctl status packagekit.service -l ● packagekit.service - PackageKit Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/packagekit.service; static) Active: inactive (dead) feb 11 12:56:05 localhost.localdomain PackageKit[1274]: daemon start feb 11 12:56:05 localhost.localdomain PackageKit[1274]: daemon quit feb 11 12:56:05 localhost.localdomain packagekitd[1274]: Failed to load the backend: Failed to execute statement 'CREATE TABLE last_action (role TEXT PRIMARY KEY, timespec TEXT);': table last_action already exists If I type "systemctl start packagekit" everything seems to work (no error output) but if I type systemctl status packagekit -l again I get the same output as before (inactive: dead) with a different timestamp Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.0.4-1.fc21 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. systemctl start packagekit 2. systemctl status packagekit.service -l Actual results: packagekit service is dead Expected results: packagekit service should be active Additional info:
This solution https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1188455#c3 worked for me too
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1188455 ***