Created attachment 585246 [details] empty categories Description of problem: If I run gpk-application and click on any category, nothing is shown, it's empty. On F16 it used to display all the packages that were part of that category. Search works OK, just category browsing is broken. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): PackageKit-0.7.4-2.fc17.i686 PackageKit-command-not-found-0.7.4-2.fc17.i686 PackageKit-device-rebind-0.7.4-2.fc17.i686 PackageKit-glib-0.7.4-2.fc17.i686 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.7.4-2.fc17.i686 PackageKit-gtk3-module-0.7.4-2.fc17.i686 PackageKit-yum-0.7.4-2.fc17.i686 PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.7.4-2.fc17.i686
This is a clean F17 RC1 i386 installation from PXE, default desktop. I can reproduce that also after reboot. But my two colleagues don't have any problems and category browsing works (they have x86_64). Also it works in my VM (i686), but that is not a clean RC1 install, but upgraded system. I don't see anything in /var/log/messages. When clicking on a category pkmon outputs: Transactions: 1 /43_bdadbbaa_data /43_bdadbbaa_data percentage -1 /43_bdadbbaa_data role search-group /43_bdadbbaa_data status finished /43_bdadbbaa_data exit code: unknown
I saw the same thing on a fresh x86_64 install of RC1 - if you click on 'refresh package lists' under the system menu, everything gets populated.
I left the computer running for a few hours and after I returned everything worked. I did not run "refresh package lists", it just fixed itself. So I assume there is some problem in yum caching. I installed a clean RC1 into VM, but I couldn't reproduce it, category browsing worked out of the box. It's erratic.
Fresh install of Final-RC1 in VBox guest. gpk-applicaion will NOT brows the "desktop" packages. Refresh package lists does NOT resolve the issue. It will successfully browse some categories, just not the ones that have been adjusted for use with anaconda (installer).
I can confirm that clean installation of F18 RC1 presents empty categories in gpk-application. After refreshing metadata I see packages in all categories except "* desktop".
*** Bug 1035783 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This also happens in F19; refreshing package lists does appear to (temporarily) correct the issue.
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This bug is confirmed present in Fedora 19.
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I would re-open this bug if I could, because *I have confirmed that it is present in Fedora 19*, as mentioned in my comment from 2013-12-21.