Bug 496990 - gpk-updates-icon temporarily forgets about pending updates after logging out and back in
Summary: gpk-updates-icon temporarily forgets about pending updates after logging out ...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-packagekit
Version: 11
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-21 22:39 UTC by Bastien Nocera
Modified: 2010-06-28 12:09 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 12:09:36 UTC
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Description Bastien Nocera 2009-04-21 22:39:40 UTC
gnome-packagekit-2.27.2-0.2.20090414git.fc11.i586

1. Had a session with the gpk-update-icon showing I had updates
2. Install some RPMs by hand from koji
3. Restart system, no more PK icon showing up

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2009-04-22 09:12:31 UTC
Right, by design. The update icon will only check once per policy time, by default once per day, not at every login. If you want to check on every login, just set /apps/gnome-packagekit/force_get_updates_login to TRUE for your desired behaviour.

Does this fix this?

Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2009-04-22 09:59:06 UTC
My problem is that the system _knows_ that I have to do updates from the last time it checked. Why can't it remember across session restarts without doing expensive checks?

Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2009-06-03 09:30:57 UTC
We don't save session state -- the only way to make system state hang around for longer is to change the packagekitd timeout value. It sounds increasing the daemon timeout and enabling /apps/gnome-packagekit/force_get_updates_login should do essentially what you want.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 14:22:07 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
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Comment 5 Christopher Beland 2010-01-08 08:02:00 UTC
I experienced some disorientation with this default in Fedora 12, as well.

It can take a while for users to figure out that this happens because of logging out and logging back in.  At first I did notice that the "updates pending" icon occasionally disappeared, but I assumed PackageKit was just broken in some way.  It's intuitive that if there are updates pending, the system should randomly (or methodically) forget about them and then remember them later.  This was compounded because the icon doesn't show up even after I use "yum update" to check for updates, which it used to, or gpk-update-viewer.  (Which was a bit annoying when the system got hosed, but it was comforting to know that if I chose to cancel the update, the system would leave up the reminder icon for me.)

If the system did save its state (so that the icon would appear immediately upon login without an expensive network check) I think it would inspire more confidence in users that the system is functioning properly, and do a better job encouraging them to install security updates and the like.  (Especially in a use case where you're on a laptop and you log in and out several times a day, but don't necessarily stay logged in all that long in any one given session.)  

It would also be nice for yum, gpk-update-viewer, and gpk-update-icon to cooperate better - is that simply a matter of reverting to previous behavior patterns?

Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2010-04-27 13:52:06 UTC
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Comment 7 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 12:09:36 UTC
Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
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