Bug 602507 - Incorrectly reports "all software is up to date" when network is down
Summary: Incorrectly reports "all software is up to date" when network is down
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-packagekit   
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Version: 13
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
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Reported: 2010-06-10 02:17 UTC by Christopher Beland
Modified: 2010-06-10 10:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2010-06-10 10:05:06 UTC
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Description Christopher Beland 2010-06-10 02:17:12 UTC 
When I ran gpk-update-viewer from the Gnome menu, I got a dialog box that said:

>>
All software is up to date

There are no software updates available for your computer at this time.
<<

This was not precisely true.  Actually, the network was down because I'd just installed the OS and hadn't yet selected a wireless network. gpk-update-viewer should be smart enough to know that the network is down and display a more accurate and helpful message.  I did later get a "Software source download failed" message, but given the assurance of the first message, some users may be misled into thinking their system is safe when they actually need to download and install published security updates.

I experienced this with gnome-packagekit-2.30.1-1.fc13.i686; the same problem occurs with gnome-packagekit-2.30.2-1.fc13.i686 when I intentionally disable the network.
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2010-06-10 10:05:06 UTC 
I've applied this to upstream:

commit 0ad3c9f144e5858f58664feff6432420cffb2380
Author: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Date:   Thu Jun 10 11:02:39 2010 +0100

    Add a modal error box to the update viewer if there is no network. Fixes rh#602507

:100644 100644 a477f5d... 2b807fa... M  src/gpk-update-viewer.c

I can't backport to F13 as there are new strings which would be a break. Thanks for reporting this bug.
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