Description of problem:

"Install Updates and Restart" stopped being able to install updates. After I removed some obsoleted packages, "Install Updates and Restart" resumed working.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

PackageKit-0.8.7-1.fc18.x86_64
systemd-197-1.fc18.1.x86_64
yum-3.4.3-48.fc18.noarch

How reproducible:

 Uncertain

Steps to Reproduce:

1.Install Updates and Restart

2.After the 2nd reboot, do "yum check-update" and observe un-applied updates, including these:

Obsoleting Packages
vlgothic-fonts.noarch                       20121230-2.fc18             updates 
    vlgothic-fonts-common.noarch            20121230-1.fc18             @updates
vlgothic-p-fonts.noarch                     20121230-2.fc18             updates 
    vlgothic-fonts-common.noarch            20121230-1.fc18             @updates

3.yum erase vlgothic-fonts-20121230-1.fc18.noarch 
yum erase vlgothic-fonts-common-20121230-1.fc18.noarch

4.Wait for Install Updates and Restart to be offered

5.Install Updates and Restart

6.After 2nd reboot, do "yum check-update" and observe that nothing needs doing.

  
Actual results:

When there are obsoleted packages to attend to, Install Updates and Restart does not perform the update.


Expected results:

Obsoleted packages should not block Offline Update from updating stuff.


Additional info:

This was a fresh installation of Fedora 18. - Not an upgrade from an earlier version.

The obsoleted packages were listed in /var/lib/PackageKit/prepared-update just like other packages to be updated: e.g.,

 vlgothic-fonts;20121230-2.fc18;noarch;updates

In /var/cache/yum/x86_64/18/updates/packages/ were zero-length RPM files suggestive of the obsoleted packages:

# ls -l /var/cache/yum/x86_64/18/updates/packages/
total 0
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Feb  3 10:22 vlgothic-fonts-20121230-2.fc18.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Feb  3 10:22 vlgothic-p-fonts-20121230-2.fc18.noarch.rpm

In /var/lib/PackageKit/offline-update-competed [sic], I found this:
 
[PackageKit Offline Update Results]
Success=false
ErrorDetails=Errors were encountered while downloading packages.\nvlgothic-p-fonts-20121230-2.fc18.noarch: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.\nvlgothic-p-fonts-20121230-2.fc18.noarch: Downloaded package vlgothic-p-fonts-20121230-2.fc18.noarch, from updates, but it was invalid.\nvlgothic-fonts-20121230-2.fc18.noarch: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.\nvlgothic-fonts-20121230-2.fc18.noarch: Downloaded package vlgothic-fonts-20121230-2.fc18.noarch, from updates, but it was invalid.
ErrorCode=package-download-failed