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Description of problem: Although prefereces are set to not check for updates, a background process checks for updates anyway (and pops notifications). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): PackageKit-0.5.4-0.3.20091029git.fc12.x86_64 How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Wait for updates to be available (check with yum) 2. Log out and log in Actual results: Notifications and the Orange Star Expected results: No notifications Additional info: Orange Star is not an applet or launcher, so it cannot be removed from the panel (as long as a notification area is present). But that's not as bad as notifications and extra background activity.
Created attachment 374439 [details] Desktop screencap
You tried System -> Preferences -> Software Updates, and setting check for updates to never?
Of course I tried the obvious. The screencap that I attached in comment #1 is supposed to provide the evidence.
On second thought, there's a possibility that I did not log out after I set the settings, so the applet possibly continued to run with old settings. I thought I did log out, but perhaps the experiment wasn't clean.
(In reply to comment #4) > On second thought, there's a possibility that I did not log out after > I set the settings, so the applet possibly continued to run with old > settings. I thought I did log out, but perhaps the experiment wasn't clean. Even so, gnome-packagekit doesn't need a login to set new settings, so it's still likely a bug. Can you work out what operation you did for the orange star to appear? Thanks.
I don't think I did anything explicit. It all is done by some session magic. Today it appeared again at login time and there was a notification about security updates (which is true -- I'm running yum update right now). So I'm pretty sure something runs during the session startup and prompts this. Actually I think we have sensible defaults that help keeping systems up to date. The problem is that something impolitely ignores the settings that the (possibly misguided) user configured.
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