Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1309753
Gnome update notifications are disabled for all users
Last modified: 2016-02-20 05:45:39 EST
Description of problem: I've not been seeing update notifications from GNOME for at least the past few weeks, probably months. I struggle to troubleshoot update issues, but it looks like GNOME is failing to show notifications even when updates are visible in `pkcon get-updates`. Any help would be appreciated :). I can manage to manually prod gnome-software into downloading updates, and that works ok. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-software-3.18.3-1.fc23.x86_64 gnome-shell-3.18.3-1.fc23.x86_64 gnome-session-3.18.1.2-2.fc23.x86_64 PackageKit-1.0.11-1.fc23.x86_64 How reproducible: Haven't seen a notification in weeks. Steps to Reproduce: 1. See updates in `dnf check-updates`. (`--refresh` may be used if the update is very recent, but I never noticed it being necessary.) 2. See updates in `pkcon -c -1 refresh force && pkcon -c -1 get-updates`. The force may be necessary to make sure recent updates are seen. 3. Then expect to see a desktop notification. I also tried the hurry-up instructions at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_desktop_update_notification and the suggestion to look at pkmon to see if it's downloading in the background. Actual results: Update notification doesn't appear. pkmon doesn't show any transaction that says updates (or downloading of packages). I do see a "resolve" transaction and then some "get-details". Expected results: The QA Testcase refers to Fedora 24. I expect the hurry-up instructions are up to date, therefore I shouldn't have to wait more than ten minutes to see some downloading activity in pkmon. Additional info: I also tried testing a fresh user in case my GNOME settings were borked. Before I found https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_desktop_update_notification, I tried just setting the date forward a couple of days.
I read bug 1043176 (listed as F22). I have various fc22 packages on my fc23 system, most likely all from rpmfusion. So I guess that bug might explain it.
Proximate causes found :). $ gsettings get org.gnome.software download-updates false _I see the same result for a newly created user_. Google leads me to: # cat /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.software.gschema.override [org.gnome.software] download-updates=false the Google result was to do with Fedora Live (the Live system doesn't show update notifications for obvious reasons). And now I remember, during install I had some shenanigans where the install still thought it was a live system. (It auto-logged in to liveuser & showed the try/install choice window). I should probably re-install, in case there's anything else lurking! (I didn't want to do that until I was sure it wasn't going to break again).