Created attachment 1517415 [details] gnome-software after pressing the refresh updates button Description of problem: For some weeks now, gnome-software hasn't functioned due to various depsolving errors. Latest example shown in attached screenshot. Perhaps the most concerning thing about this is that, although an error message is displayed when I click the "refresh" button, prior to that, gnome-software reports tht software is up to date. That's not great, as users could be thinking their systems are fully patched, whereas a gnome-software problem is preventing updates from being detected and reported to the user. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # rpm -qa | grep gnome-software gnome-software-3.30.6-1.fc29.x86_64 # rpm -qa | grep -i PackageKit PackageKit-1.1.12-2.fc29.x86_64 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-1.1.12-2.fc29.x86_64 PackageKit-gtk3-module-1.1.12-2.fc29.x86_64 PackageKit-Qt5-1.0.1-2.fc29.x86_64 PackageKit-glib-1.1.12-2.fc29.x86_64
*** Bug 1661231 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
To be clear, i think the following are serious security defects of gnome-software: 1. One depsolving error results in none of the available updates being made available to the user. 2. One depsolving error results in gnome-software informing the user that all software is up to date. This behaviour means we're exposing users who have become accustomed to trusting gnome-software to notify them of updates (and also offer those updates during shutdown etc) unknowingly running vulnerable systems. I really think this needs some urgent attention.
I am experiencing this bug on Fedora 30, don't know if it's better to file a new one. # rpm -qa | grep gnome-software gnome-software-3.32.4-1.fc30.x86_64 (btw, # rpm -qa | grep -i PackageKit returns nothing, is that normal?)
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