Description of problem: When PackageKit is asked to install updates that have already been installed it gives a scary-looking error message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): PackageKit-1.0.11-1.fc23.x86_64 PackageKit-Qt-0.9.5-5.fc23.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Choose some installed package, I'll use bash, and then as root run "dnf downgrade bash" and "pkcon refresh" 2. The PK applet will popup a notification about updates being available. 3. As root run "dnf update bash" 4. Click "Install Updates" in the PK applet. Actual results: Scary looking error message with missing punctuation between the first two sentences and a request to report a bug: An internal system error has occurred A problem that we were not expecting has occurred. Please report this bug with the error description. What "error description"? That alert is entirely unhelpful. Expected results: PK should realise the system is up to date and should just deal with it. It's not a bug and doesn't need action. If the last step is replaced by "pkcon update" on the command-line then it prints a sensible message instead of losing the plot: No packages require updating to newer versions. The GUI should do something similar. (Ideally off course DNF and PK should share their update caches and then this problem wouldn't even exist, but that seems to be some way of happening.)
Created attachment 1115845 [details] Screenshot of the scary error message
(In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #0) > (Ideally off course DNF and PK should share their update caches and then > this problem wouldn't even exist, but that seems to be some way of > happening.) Oops, off <--> of Not sure what my fingers were doing.
Maybe component should be "apper", I get confused about what packages I'm actually dealing with in KDE. apper-0.9.2-3.fc23.x86_64
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Still happens for F24. (Also, it probably shouldn't even download the packages if they've already been updated via dnf or some other non-PK method).
Possibly fixed upstream by https://github.com/KDE/plasma-pk-updates/commit/048acbfce7af212b8f61ded559ed7df50af86ebd
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Still happens in F26, but now the popup says "The PackageKit daemon has crashed"
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With F27 I get a notification saying: "Error running transaction: package bash-4.4.12-12.fc27.x86_64 is already installed." So it's fixed.