Description of problem: gpk-update-viewer error message not helpful when installing updates from the command line with yum got helpful error message describing WHY it wouldnt try to install an update. an example of this is expressed in the 'additional info' section of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632126 however when try to install the same update from the gui version by gpk-update-viewer you instead get a more generic and less helpful error message like: "Transaction error" "An unspecified transaction error has occurred." "More information is available in the detailed report." "More details:" "No transaction to process" "<close>" the gpk-update viewer error message should be specific like the yum messsage the gpk-update-viewer message tells me that the update failed for an unknown reason the yum message tells me details of the fail that allow me to see that the dependencies are defined wrong so the update will fail. the more descriptive error message allows me to file a detailed usefull bugreport that clearly shows a potential starting point for addressing the error instead of the alternative of filing a generic 'its broken' bug report that would dead end until more information can be gathered. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-packagekit-2.28.3-1.fc12 (x86_64) How reproducible: sometimes - on occasions that software updater displays an error it is sometimes not as helpful it could be Steps to Reproduce: 1. run gpk-update-viewer 2. select to install updates 3. if an error occurs it may be described as well/worse_than the corresponding error as it would have been reported by yum Actual results: sometimes gpk-updaye-viewer error messages are sometimes too generic compared to the yum error response from the same cause Expected results: error responses not be generic but instead give specific causal information if available. (make the gpk-update-viewer's error message as useful as yum's) Additional info:
What was the same error from the yum command line tool in this case?
it looked like a mismatched dependency requirement. i referenced that in comment#0: "an example of this is expressed in the 'additional info' section of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632126" which shows: "Additional info: # yum update Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit Setting up Update Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package firefox.x86_64 0:3.5.12-1.fc12 set to be updated ---> Package xulrunner.x86_64 0:1.9.1.12-1.fc12 set to be updated ---> Package xulrunner-devel.x86_64 0:1.9.1.12-1.fc12 set to be updated --> Processing Dependency: pkgconfig(nspr) >= 4.8.6 for package: xulrunner-devel-1.9.1.12-1.fc12.x86_64 --> Finished Dependency Resolution Error: Package: xulrunner-devel-1.9.1.12-1.fc12.x86_64 (updates) Requires: pkgconfig(nspr) >= 4.8.6 Installed: nspr-devel-4.8.4-2.fc12.x86_64 (@updates) pkgconfig(nspr) = 4.8.4 Available: nspr-devel-4.8.2-1.fc12.i686 (fedora) pkgconfig(nspr) = 4.8.2 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest" hope that helps.
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dont remember fc13 error to recheck this with lately but changing to fc13 to ping
i didnt think to write down the actual error message but this seems to be present in fc15
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this is still alive in f16-release in the following way: when a nss update came through f16-gnome-updates-testing that killed yum updates (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=753931) yum gave a nice error message about repomd.xml saying that it couldnt connect but the gpk-update-viewer would run and just say 'no updates available' like all was well. when i downgraded the nss it fixed yum and the gpk-update-viewer so now the gpk-update-viewer found 75 updates that had been piling up for the last week or so unknowingly. it would have been nice to have a 'notice of brokenness' for the week or so instead of a 'no updates available' so i would have know to look for the brokenness. i only noticed the brokenness when i went to install a package and found that couldnt to repo eventhough browswer worked fine.