Debian Bug report logs - #678340
gnome-packagekit: Update information is not refreshed

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: nodiscc <nodiscc@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: gnome-packagekit: gpk-update-viewer fails listing available updates

Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:23:59 +0200

Package: gnome-packagekit
Version: 3.4.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
on my system, running gpk-update-viewer returns the following:

(gpk-update-viewer:20188): PackageKit-WARNING **: couldn't parse execption 'GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._pk_5ftransaction_5ferror.Code14: Unknown filter part: unknown', please report

No updates are displayed. Upgrading through other package managers work fine.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-packagekit depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-1
ii  gnome-packagekit-data                        3.4.2-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.4.2-3
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-33
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.2-1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.28-4
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.28-4
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.5.12-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.98-1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.9.0-6
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.32.3-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-1
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.5-1
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-14                       0.7.4-4
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.30.0-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.7.12.1-1
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.16-2
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.4.99.901-2
ii  packagekit                                   0.7.4-4

gnome-packagekit recommends no packages.

gnome-packagekit suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 678340@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net>

To: nodiscc <nodiscc@gmail.com>, 678340@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#678340: gnome-packagekit: gpk-update-viewer fails listing available updates

Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2012 19:38:55 +0200

Control: tag -1 + moreinfo

Hi!
Is this issue still valid? Do you have the most recent version of
PackageKit (avaiable in the Debian archives) installed?
This issue should not happen (and I wasn't able to reproduce it here,
so it is probably already gone...)
Cheers,
   Matthias

2012/6/21 nodiscc <nodiscc@gmail.com>:
> Package: gnome-packagekit
> Version: 3.4.2-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> on my system, running gpk-update-viewer returns the following:
>
> (gpk-update-viewer:20188): PackageKit-WARNING **: couldn't parse execption 'GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._pk_5ftransaction_5ferror.Code14: Unknown filter part: unknown', please report
>
> No updates are displayed. Upgrading through other package managers work fine.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers testing
>   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages gnome-packagekit depends on:
> ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-1
> ii  gnome-packagekit-data                        3.4.2-1
> ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.4.2-3
> ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.4.0-2
> ii  libc6                                        2.13-33
> ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.2-1
> ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.2-1
> ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.28-4
> ii  libcanberra0                                 0.28-4
> ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.5.12-1
> ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.98-1
> ii  libfontconfig1                               2.9.0-6
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.26.1-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.32.3-1
> ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-1
> ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.5-1
> ii  libpackagekit-glib2-14                       0.7.4-4
> ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.30.0-1
> ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.7.12.1-1
> ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.16-2
> ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.4.99.901-2
> ii  packagekit                                   0.7.4-4
>
> gnome-packagekit recommends no packages.
>
> gnome-packagekit suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>

Message #17 received at 678340@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julien Eula <julieneula@yahoo.fr>

To: 678340@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Fwd: Bug#678340: gnome-packagekit: gpk-update-viewer fails listing available updates

Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 03:15:50 +0200

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>
> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
>
> Hi!
> Is this issue still valid? Do you have the most recent version of
> PackageKit (avaiable in the Debian archives) installed?
> This issue should not happen (and I wasn't able to reproduce it here,
> so it is probably already gone...)
> Cheers,
>    Matthias
>

Hi, well I am unable to reproduce it on the machine i am using now.
This is the same version as used before (3.4.2-1), but it looks like
the bug is gone.

Anyway I think it is safe to close this ticket. If I am able to
reproduce this bug later, i'll reopen it.

Thanks for your time!

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Message #22 received at 678340@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Fabio Burlá <fburla@gmail.com>

To: 678340@bugs.debian.org

Subject: gnome-packagekit: gpk-update-viewer fails listing available updates

Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:55:38 -0200

This bug is still happening. If you start gpk-update-viewer and check 
for updates, it will most likely not find any update and will say your 
system is up to date. But if you use apt-get to update the repositories 
status and start gpk-update-viewer again, it will show the available 
updates and let you install them.

It is probably not downloading the files from repositories to check for 
the status of updated packages, but will use the ones downloaded by 
apt-get and will work fine.

Sometimes it will work but will leave some packages not updating, I am 
not very sure about that. I reproduced this in a virtual machine running 
on another computer and gpk-update-viewer is having this same incorrect 
behaviour, it may update some packages but if I run apt-get update it 
will show a lot of other updates that it was not able to find by itself.

Maybe this bug is being overlooked by the majority of users because they 
are proficient at using the shell for system updates?

Message #27 received at 678340@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net>

To: Fabio Burlá <fburla@gmail.com>, 678340@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#678340: gnome-packagekit: gpk-update-viewer fails listing available updates

Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 14:53:12 +0100

Hi!
This is very weird... Can you please if you reproduced this, update
your package cache by running "pkcon refresh" instead of "apt-get
update" in a terminal? Do you get any error message from pkcon? Is the
list updated after running the command?
Can you check the PackageKit proxy settings (if you have one) in the
GPK preferences?
If all of this does not work or produce some nice error message, please run
 "/usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd --verbose" in a Terminal as root,
execute "pkcon refresh" in a new one and send me the output from
packagekitd.
If you already have a VM with this stuff running, you might want to
upgrade PackageKit and GNOME-PackageKit to their newest versions using
the packages available in Debian Eperimental.
Does that solve the issue?
Cheers & a happy new year!
    Matthias

Message #32 received at 678340@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Andrzej Zięba <a-zieba@go2.pl>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <678340@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: gnome-packagekit: gpk-update-viewer fails listing available updates

Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:58:41 +0200

Package: gnome-packagekit
Version: 3.4.2-2
Followup-For: Bug #678340

Hi,

I have this issue in testing.

When I run "pkcon refresh" the package cache is refreshed and the gpk-update-
viewer shows all the available updates.

So "pkcon refresh" is fine but is probably never used.

Best Regards,

Andrzej



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pl_PL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-packagekit depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.12.1-3
ii  gnome-packagekit-data                        3.4.2-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.4.2+git20121218.7c1322-3
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.8.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.17-3
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.12.14-4
ii  libcairo2                                    1.12.14-4
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.28-6
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.28-6
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.6.10-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.100.2-1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.9.0-7.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.28.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.36.1-2build1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.4.2-6
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.5-2
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-14                       0.7.6-3
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.32.5-5+b1
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.7.17-1
ii  libupower-glib1                              0.9.17-1
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  packagekit                                   0.7.6-3

gnome-packagekit recommends no packages.

gnome-packagekit suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #37 received at 678340@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julien Eula <julieneula@yahoo.fr>

To: 678340@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Duplicate bug report

Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 23:48:26 +0100

This is a duplicate of
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702241, maybe they
should be merged.

Thanks

Message #64 received at 678340@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>

To: 678340@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: gnome-packagekit: gpk-update-viewer fails listing available updates

Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 11:11:08 +0100

On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:58:41 +0200 =?utf-8?q?Andrzej_Zi=C4=99ba?= 
<a-zieba@go2.pl> wrote:
>
> When I run "pkcon refresh" the package cache is refreshed and the 
gpk-update-
> viewer shows all the available updates.
>
> So "pkcon refresh" is fine but is probably never used.


I agree, you can see it in the logs.  Debian's gnome runs 'get-updates' 
but never 'refresh':

# cd /var/log && zgrep "PackageKit" syslog syslog.*
syslog:May 16 10:42:10 debian-test PackageKit: get-updates transaction 
/113_eecabaaa from uid 1000 finished with success after 548ms
...

Whereas Fedora runs PackageKit refresh as intended:

# journalctl /usr/libexec/packagekitd
-- Reboot --
May 14 07:59:27 volcano.localdomain PackageKit[1486]: daemon start
May 14 08:00:37 volcano.localdomain PackageKit[1486]: uid 1000 is trying 
to obtain org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh auth (o
May 14 08:00:38 volcano.localdomain PackageKit[1486]: uid 1000 obtained 
auth for org.freedesktop.packagekit.system-sources-refresh
May 14 08:01:32 volcano.localdomain PackageKit[1486]: refresh-cache 
transaction /2330_cccdedbe from uid 1000 finished with success after 546
May 14 08:01:33 volcano.localdomain PackageKit[1486]: get-updates 
transaction /2331_ebccabab from uid 1000 finished with success after 270ms
-- Reboot --

Alan

Message #71 received at 678340@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net>

To: Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>, 678340@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#678340: gnome-packagekit: gpk-update-viewer fails listing available updates

Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 12:42:14 +0200

2015-05-16 12:11 GMT+02:00 Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>:
> On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:58:41 +0200 =?utf-8?q?Andrzej_Zi=C4=99ba?=
> <a-zieba@go2.pl> wrote:
>>
>> When I run "pkcon refresh" the package cache is refreshed and the
>> gpk-update-
>> viewer shows all the available updates.
>>
>> So "pkcon refresh" is fine but is probably never used.
>
>
> I agree, you can see it in the logs.  Debian's gnome runs 'get-updates' but
> never 'refresh':

The component which runs the refresh-action on GNOME is not
GNOME-PackageKit, but gnome-settings-daemon.
Can you check in gpk-prefs that the automatic update-checks are enabled?
All people not using GNOME or KDE need to ask their desktops to
integrate PackageKit, or install the package "apt-config-auto-update"
to get the cache updated.
Cheers,
    Matthias

Message #76 received at 678340@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net>

To: Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>, 678340@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#678340: gnome-packagekit: gpk-update-viewer fails listing available updates

Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 10:43:33 +0200

2015-05-16 16:50 GMT+02:00 Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>:
> On 16 May 2015 at 11:42, Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>
> Thanks for your time Matthias.
>
> I don't see an automatic update setting in gpk-prefs, but it does show the
> update repos are enabled.  See attached screenshot.  (and it's a VM install
> primarily for this test, I haven't had reason to mess anything up).
>
> Best regards
> Alan

Right, I forgot that this was dropped from gpk-prefs.
Please open the dconf-editor (GUI editor for dconf) and navigate to the
/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/updates section.
Is the "active" value set to "true"?

Cheers,
    Matthias

Message #81 received at 678340@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>

To: Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net>, 678340@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#678340: gnome-packagekit: gpk-update-viewer fails listing available updates

Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 17:53:37 +0100

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On 18 May 2015 at 17:33, Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On 18 May 2015 at 09:43, Matthias Klumpp <matthias@tenstral.net> wrote:
>
>> 2015-05-16 16:50 GMT+02:00 Alan Jenkins <
>> alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com>:
>> > [...]
>>
>> Right, I forgot that this was dropped from gpk-prefs.
>> Please open the dconf-editor (GUI editor for dconf) and navigate to the
>> /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/updates section.
>> Is the "active" value set to "true"?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     Matthias
>>
>
> Ok, thanks for revised instructions :).
>
> That is indeed what it shows.  There's also a plausible value for a key
> called 'frequency-refresh-cache'.
>
>
> I attach a dconf-editor screenshot.  I'd use the `dconf` cli but for
> whatever reason it doesn't see the /plugins/ section.
>
> $ dconf list /org/gnome/settings-daemon/
> peripherals/
> $
>

Ful disclosure - I said this was a clean test VM.  The one quirk is I
migrated it from gnome Boxes to virt-manager, had to futz NetworkManager,
and then added a second network interface.

However I can't see any problems when I try
 - `nm-online && echo online`
 - installing packages from repos
 - web browsing

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Message #92 received at 678340@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Miroslav Urbanek <mu@miroslavurbanek.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <678340@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: gnome-packagekit: Update information is not refreshed

Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015 03:41:33 +0100

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Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Version: 3.14.2-3
Followup-For: Bug #678340

I turned on the debug flag in gnome-settings-daemon to see why the
package cache is never refreshed automatically on my computer. There
was a message "not when session active" in the debug output. The
package cache is refreshed only when the computer is idle. The daemon
obtains information about idle status by handling a signal
"StatusChanged" from org.gnome.SessionManager. However, this signal is
emitted by org.gnome.SessionManager.Presence, so the daemon never
receives it.

There is no handler for signals from
org.gnome.SessionManager.Presence, so the simplest solution is to just
disable the check for the idle status. The package cache will be
refreshed even if the user is not idle, but it's better than no
refresh at all. A patch is attached.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.22.0-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.14.1-1
ii  libc6                                        2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0                           0.30-2.1
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.30-2.1
ii  libcolord2                                   1.2.1-1+b2
ii  libcups2                                     1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.11.0-6.3
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.31.1-2+deb8u3
ii  libgeocode-glib0                             3.14.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.42.1-1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-10                        3.14.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.14.5-1+deb8u1
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               215-17+deb8u2
ii  libgweather-3-6                              3.14.1-1
ii  liblcms2-2                                   2.6-3+b3
ii  libnm-glib4                                  0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnm-util2                                  0.9.10.0-7
ii  libnotify4                                   0.7.6-2
ii  libnspr4                                     2:4.10.7-1
ii  libnss3                                      2:3.17.2-1.1+deb8u2
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-18                       1.0.1-2
ii  libpam-systemd                               215-17+deb8u2
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0                          1.36.8-3
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.105-8
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      5.0-13
ii  libpulse0                                    5.0-13
ii  librsvg2-2                                   2.40.5-1
ii  libupower-glib3                              0.99.1-3.2
ii  libwacom2                                    0.8-1
ii  libwayland-client0                           1.6.0-2
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6                                     2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.7.4-1+b2
ii  libxtst6                                     2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  nautilus-data                                3.14.1-2

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon recommends:
ii  pulseaudio  5.0-13

Versions of packages gnome-settings-daemon suggests:
pn  gnome-screensaver            <none>
ii  metacity [x-window-manager]  1:3.14.3-1
ii  mutter [x-window-manager]    3.14.4-1~deb8u1
ii  x11-xserver-utils            7.7+3+b1

-- no debconf information

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From: nodiscc <nodiscc@gmail.com>

To: 678340@bugs.debian.org

Subject: gnome-packagekit: Update information is not refreshed

Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2019 16:14:13 +0000

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I can confirm that this bug was fixed for me by installing
apt-config-auto-update (I am on Xfce).

The gnome-packagekit package should probably depend on/recommend
gnome-settings-daemon |apt-config-auto-update so that it works
out-of-the-box.

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