Description of problem: I work on my laptop all the time, and use NetworkManager to manage my network connections, almost always wireless connections. When booting the computer, yum- updatesd is started before Networkmanager and NetworkManagerDispatcher, and thus cannot initially connect to the net and check for updates. Therefore, when logging in to GNOME, puplet connects to yum-updatesd which doesnt report any available updates. This would have been fine as long as available updates where reported to puplet as available when yum-updatesd checks for updates again (as per settings in /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf), but this never happens. I _never_ recieve notifications, and the puplet icon is _never_ visible. It seems to me, that yum-updatesd fails to emit dbus-messages permanently to puplet if it fails to connect to the network when the daemon starts. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the computer 2. Log in to GNOME 3. Wait indefinately Actual results: No notifications are presented Expected results: Notifications emitted from yum-updatesd to puplet, and icon in notification tray. Additional info: I am able to bypass the problem and recieve notifications as expected by doing the following: 1. Disable yum-updatesd from starting automatically at boot 2. Create script /usr/bin/yum-updatesd_delay and call it from /etc/rc.local: #!/bin/bash sleep 180 /etc/init.d/yum-updatesd start 3. Create script /usr/bin/puplet_delay and call it (instead of the usual puplet command) automatically when logging in to GNOME: #!/bin/bash sleep 240 /usr/bin/puplet & This gives me a 3 minute window to log in to GNOME and get a network connection running before yum-updatesd starts, and furthermore gives yum-updatesd in excess of 1 minute to resolve updates so that puplet, when it starts, can recieve a meaningfull message over dbus and present notifications. (Puplet seems to fail (and doesn't recover again) if it starts before yum-updatesd is running) This actually works for me 95% of the time, but it just doesn't cut it for an Enterprise OS.
Just setting flags.
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I have set the flags for 5.9 so this bug won't be lost but I don't think it is an issue right now, the bug is several years without update. I incline to close it.
Just found that this is duplicate to bug 480339. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 480339 ***