I have seen this two times now recently so I report... note that the bug seems to be similar to the (fixed) #492005 . To reproduce: wait until the update icon appears in tray, use it to show all updates, apply updates, close updater. The update iocn reappears right away. Hovering the icon shows the exact same number of updates. Opening the updater again shows "All software is up to date". Closing the window again, the update icon reappears...
I am seeing this, too. And what is even more annoying is that I have completely disabled PackageKit from System->Preferences->Software Updates (meaning that my setting there are Never/Nothing/Never).
Minor clarification: since I have tried to disable PackageKit updates this icon appears for me after running yum update (not always, but sometimes).
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
This is still happening on F12 final. I click the tray icon, apply all updates, during which time the icon is gone. A soon as the updates finish installing and the update window is closed, the icon reappears, listing the same package count as before. Clicking it brings up a window saying "All software is up to date".
I still see this with F12 final + updates as of 2009-12-05: the icon appeared, I used "yum update" as root, all 21 packages updated ok but icon did not vanish. Then after clicking the icon it checks updates and informs that everything is updated and the icon disappears. However, half a second later the icon reappers and says that there are 21 updates available. I can go for the rest of the day clicking the icon, seeing it informing that no updates are available, and it reappearing informing first that 21 updates are available, then it informing all software is to date, ...
I opened a new bug for the issue mentioned in comment 1 (PackageKit configured to not check any updates but it keeps on doing it): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544573
Still the case and really starts to annoy me PackageKit-*-0.5.5-1.fc12.i686 gnome-packagekit-2.28.3-0.1.20091211git.fc12.i686
*** Bug 550628 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 531333 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 533121 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I'm guessing running "pkmon -v", "gpk-updates-icon -v", and "gpk-updates-viewer -v" from the command line might provide some clues for the developers, since this might be a bit hard to reproduce? (Or does it happen reliably every time updates are applied?) --- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Yes, for me it seems to appear every time I update now. I will provide the requested output as soon as I get the chance (eg, an update)
Ok, I got the notification about some updates this morning, so I killed the update icon and ran pkmon, gpk-update-icon and gpk-update-viewer from terminals. Attached you will find the logs. Behaviour: after applying the updates, the updates viewer closed and the updates icon reappeared. I then clicked it again (marked in the log) and was told that there were 0 updates. I went to brunch and when I came back, the update icon was gone and instead the reboot icon had appeared. Only (maybe) relevant red line: no schema for /apps/gnome-packagekit/update-icon/frequency_get_updates, using daily The key is set to 0 btw
Created attachment 382623 [details] pkmon log
Created attachment 382624 [details] gpk-update-icon log
Created attachment 382625 [details] gpk-update-viewer log
I'm pretty sure we've now fixed this in F12. Please re-open if you can still reproduce with a fully updated system. Thanks.