Description of problem: When Gnome is running inside VNC, "Apply Updates" button is always disabled in gpk-update-viewer application. Similarly, if the update attempted from the gpk-update-icon by selecting update system from the menu, an error pops up claiming org.freedesktop.packagekit.update-system no. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 0.1.12-12.20080430.fc9 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run Gnome inside VNC (i.e. service vncserver start) 2. Wait for some updates to be available. 3. Attempt to update the system. Actual results: Unable to update the system. Expected results: Works fine otherwise, so it should work from within VNC too. Additional info:
BTW, VNC is run here under a regular user account, not root.
Sure, the vnc console is probably notactive from a ConsoleKit point of view -- what does ck-list-sessions in the vnc window print?
Session2: uid = '500' realname = 'Bojan Smojver' seat = 'Seat3' session-type = '' active = FALSE x11-display = ':1' x11-display-device = '' display-device = '' remote-host-name = '' is-local = TRUE on-since = '2008-06-19T00:58:19Z'
I have the exact same problem. Unfortunately, this means I cannot use Gnome update management on any machine which doesn't have direct console via KVM. Having to plug in a keyboard/video/mouse console just to do updates is not worth it (in any machine environment bigger than a couple machines). If doing "yum update" is acceptable work-around and has same effect, I'll try it. Would be nice if Gnome update mgmt wasn't completely broken over VNC. -Andy
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 453247 ***