Bug 615099 - PackageKit never displays any notices of updates
Summary: PackageKit never displays any notices of updates
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: PackageKit
Version: 13
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: 2010-07-15 23:14 UTC by James Ralston
Modified: 2011-06-01 20:40 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-06-01 20:40:57 UTC
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Description James Ralston 2010-07-15 23:14:05 UTC
Starting approximately a few weeks ago, PackageKit ceased to notify me of package updates.

The pkcon command claims that package updates are available:

$ pkcon get-updates | grep Security
Security     libvirt-0.8.2-1.fc13.x86_64
Security     libvirt-client-0.8.2-1.fc13.x86_64
Security     libvirt-python-0.8.2-1.fc13.x86_64

So does yum, if I run it directly as root.

But if I run System -> Administration -> Software Update, after the Software Update window appears, a small pop-up window appears that says:

    Could not get updates

    Failed to process request.

    > More details

If I click on the "More details" arrow widget, the revealed text is:

    Unknown filter part:
    unknown

That's it. There's nothing else to go on to attempt to figure this out.

Also, the only way to see this error is to manually run System -> Administration -> Software Update. Unless you do that, PackageKit generates no notifications whatsoever.

I regularly run "yum update", so this isn't a big deal for me. But if PackageKit is silently failing like this for other Fedora users, that is EXTREMELY bad news.

I have another F13 machine (my laptop) which doesn't have this problem. The only difference I can think of between the two is that the box on which PackageKit fails doesn't run NetworkManager, while my laptop does. But otherwise, the versions are the same:

0:PackageKit-0.6.6-1.fc13.x86_64
0:PackageKit-command-not-found-0.6.6-1.fc13.x86_64
0:PackageKit-device-rebind-0.6.6-1.fc13.x86_64
0:PackageKit-glib-0.6.6-1.fc13.x86_64
0:PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.6.6-1.fc13.x86_64
0:PackageKit-gtk-module-0.6.6-1.fc13.x86_64
0:PackageKit-yum-0.6.6-1.fc13.x86_64
0:PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.6.6-1.fc13.x86_64

Again, this isn't a big deal for me, but if PackageKit is falling over for others, that's bad...

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2010-07-16 18:47:54 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
>     Unknown filter part:
>     unknown

That looks new to me. Can you describe the system that this is running on? Are you just using fedora packages? Does "gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/gnome-packagekit" fix things?

Comment 2 Arkady L. Shane 2010-07-19 14:36:23 UTC
I can say something. It does not really work with PackageKit 0.6.6-1.fc13. gpk-update-icon does not appear in tray. As soon as I downgraded PackageKit to 0.6.5-1.fc13 this icon appeared again.

gpk-update-viewer knows about updates, but gpk-update-icon does not appear in the tray.

Comment 3 James Ralston 2010-07-19 16:02:03 UTC
In reply to comment 1:

I'm using a variety of repositories on this system (adobe-linux-i386, chromium, dell-community-repository, dell-firmware-repository, rpmfusion*), but I saw the problem when I (temporarily) removed all repository configuration files from /etc/yum.repos.d except (fedora, fedora-updates, fedora-updates-testing).

However, running "gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/gnome-packagekit" did indeed make the "Unknown filter part" error go away, so that was clearly a setting issue of some sort. I'll see if I can't manage to reproduce it.

But Arkady's observation in comment 2 is true for me as well: out of the 3 Fedora 13 systems I have (all with the fedora-updates-testing repository enabled and all of them currently up-to-date), none of them show any update/progress icons in the system tray. If I downgrade PackageKit* to 0.6.3, then the icons appear again.

So, it would seem that notifications in 0.6.6 is borked somehow...

Comment 4 Richard Hughes 2010-07-20 07:50:08 UTC
commit 91253f96d10a630936c1fc058b511a9dc7a705d1
Author: Richard Hughes <richard>
Date:   Tue Jul 20 08:49:32 2010 +0100

    Fix an important bug that stopped GetUpdates from working correctly. Fixes rh#615099
    
    We were sending an enum, when we should have been sending a bitfield.
    All the time that PK_FILTER_ENUM_NONE was index zero this was no
    problem, and it masked the bug. But when PK_FILTER_ENUM_UNKNOWN pushed
    'none' into second spot in the enum list this caused a client side failure

diff --git a/src/gpk-check-update.c b/src/gpk-check-update.c
index 15fb1ed..ca8ba97 100644
--- a/src/gpk-check-update.c
+++ b/src/gpk-check-update.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,9 @@ gpk_check_update_query_updates (GpkCheckUpdate *cupdate)
        }
 
        /* get new update list */
-       pk_client_get_updates_async (PK_CLIENT(cupdate->priv->task), PK_FILTER_ENUM_NONE, cupdate->priv->cancellable, NULL, NULL,
+       pk_client_get_updates_async (PK_CLIENT(cupdate->priv->task),
+                                    pk_bitfield_value (PK_FILTER_ENUM_NONE),
+                                    cupdate->priv->cancellable, NULL, NULL,
                                     (GAsyncReadyCallback) gpk_check_update_get_updates_finished_cb, cupdate);
 out:
        return;

Comment 6 Arkady L. Shane 2010-07-21 07:14:44 UTC
I think it does not work proper. After "pkcon refresh" the icon is appearing, but I waited about 12 hours and icon did not appear itself (without any yum or pkcon manipulations).

With PackageKit 0.6.5 the icon is appearing very very quickly.

Comment 7 Arkady L. Shane 2010-07-22 09:49:05 UTC
No, I wait a day on several hosts. it worked!!!

Comment 8 Richard Hughes 2010-07-22 13:17:54 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> No, I wait a day on several hosts. it worked!!!    

Could you add karma to https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/gnome-packagekit-2.30.3-1.fc13 please. Thanks.

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Comment 10 James Ralston 2011-06-01 20:40:57 UTC
gnome-packagekit-2.30.3-1.fc13 was pushed to stable on 2010-07-23, and it corrects this bug. So closing.


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