In the detail view of pk-update-viewer, every time you click a line, the status bar shows "Getting information" and then gnome-power-manager pops up a notification, warning that a program has prevented from the laptop from being able to sleep. g-p-m is being annoying here by warning about this, but at the same time, why does PackageKit need to inhibit sleep just to do a *query*?
Well, it's a technical detail, but yum locks the rpmdb when depsolving - it could be we are getting inhibited by the depsolve, although I don't know why it would depsolve for a search. I'll check it out.
Yup, yum calls into random bits of rpm, which isn't safe to interrupt. Do you think we should just show the notification once _ever_ or wait till the user clicks the button? Richard.
I'm not sure what you mean by "wait till the user clicks the button". At this point, I think the bug is probably g-p-m's fault. Alerting the user every time an app inhibits sleep is really annoying, and so everyone is just going to end up clicking the "never harass me about this again" button, so it really needs to find a better way to handle it. (Saying "but we have to show the dialogs because people need to know when sleep is inhibited because otherwise they might close their laptop and not realize it's not going to go to sleep and then it will fry itself and they'll hate us" is missing the point; they will fry their laptop anyway, because they will have already clicked "don't tell me again" long before that point, because the earlier warnings were so annoying.)
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packagekit (or g-p-m, which ever it is) should notify the user when the machine is capable to sleep as well. I'm see multiple notifications that I can't sleep as I do updates, and I'm assuming sleep will work again after updates are finished but who knows...
Dan's comment #3 summarizes the issue pretty well. Unless PK is somehow abusing gnome-power-manager to cause this behavior, I think it probably should be a g-p-m bug.
Should be fixed in F10, right?
i don't see the warnings any more, but it's possible that i just clicked a "don't ever show me these ever again" button somewhere. i dno't know where i'd check that
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