Bug 706768 - Packagekit sometimes doesn't recognize new updates
Summary: Packagekit sometimes doesn't recognize new updates
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: PackageKit
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Richard Hughes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 716596 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-05-22 21:02 UTC by Rolle
Modified: 2013-12-10 17:09 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-12-10 17:09:40 UTC
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Description Rolle 2011-05-22 21:02:17 UTC
Description of problem:
Some times PackageKit doesn't recognize new updates. When I go to the console and execute "yum update" it worked. It seems also to work fine, if I execute "yum clean all" and then it worked in PackageKit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 15 Beta, Gnome-Version of PackageKit

How reproducible:
Some times

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot Fedora
2. start PackageKit

  
Actual results:
sometimes "no updates" are shown, also when new updates are available

Expected results:
show a list of available updates

Additional info:

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2011-05-23 08:24:27 UTC
We only do the notification of normal updates (e.g. not security updates) once a week, no matter the checking frequency the user specified. Has it been more than one week since you were notified?

Comment 2 Rolle 2011-05-23 09:19:16 UTC
I don't wait until a notification appears automatically. In the last 2 weeks I opened PackageKit manually (Software-Updates) to see if new updates are available and wondered that in such a heat-phase before a new distribution-release is scheduled, more days along no updates available. But with "yum update" I can see it. So with your explanation it could be the reason for that behaviour. Is this behaviour in past releases (Fedora 14) the same? Because when I remember back, this is not the case? Maybe I changed the settings in Fedora 14 for a long time to notify me once per day? And now I didn't change this setting on the new Fedora 15 Beta installation? I couldn't remember what I did (or not did) for a long time :-(
If this is the case, then this is not a bug. And I understand this behaviour.

Thank you

Comment 3 Steve 2011-06-06 06:41:19 UTC
Same here, in most of time Package-kit will not show any updates.

Comment 4 pankaj pandey 2011-06-22 07:41:10 UTC
I'm also having same problems. The issue here is that packagekit goes not show updates (not talking about the notification) even when i select the update application from the menu. Running 'yum update' does show and install updates. I feel at least the application should really show updates when i manually open it. (I've set update check period to hourly if thats relevant)

Here's a thing which i feel is bug
 * open update from the menu, it shows no updates
 * do yum update on a terminal. 54 packages are updated

If it can happen due to some setting/config changes then it'd be good to know what it is

Comment 5 Richard Hughes 2011-06-25 21:39:24 UTC
*** Bug 716596 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Richard Hughes 2011-06-25 21:40:43 UTC
Please read http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100468.html

Comment 7 pankaj pandey 2011-06-26 06:19:00 UTC
Thanks for the hint on the issue. Does that mean setting the gsettings value using dconf for the root user will be honoured by packagekit

Comment 8 Adel Gadllah 2011-06-26 11:29:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> We only do the notification of normal updates (e.g. not security updates) once
> a week, no matter the checking frequency the user specified. Has it been more
> than one week since you were notified?

Ah that makes sense and it seems to work fine now (i.e just got a notification).

What we should do though (re #716596) is to stop shipping an outdated man page (minor issue though). 

Sorry for the noise.

Comment 9 Steve 2011-07-26 06:03:55 UTC
Workaround: Install yum-updatesd.

Comment 10 David Juran 2011-12-07 08:42:01 UTC
If nothing else, the gpk-prefs should be updated to reflect this behaviour. At least for me it's not obvious that "check for updates daily" really means that it will be checked once a week...

Comment 11 Gendre Sébastien 2012-10-17 13:01:06 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> Please read
> http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2011-May/100468.html

I don't know if you speak about the behaviour of update notifications or about the behaviour of gpk-update-viewer.

In se second case, you mean gpk-update-viewer only show packages to update once a week except if we have security update? 

Can you clarify

Comment 12 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 17:20:45 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19


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