Need some testing done.

[Steven M. Parrish]

> > On Tuesday 18 August 2009 14:06:34 Steven M. Parrish wrote:
> > > I am working on tracking down what is causing KPackagekit to change its
> > > default behavior.   We have the defaults set to Daily/None but somehow
> > > they are getting changed to Hourly/Security.  Based on what I am seeing
> > > on my own boxes it appears to be changing when kpackagekit crashes for
> > > whatever reason.
> > >
> > > This is what I need to help track it down.  If kpackagekit crashes by
> > > itself or if you have to abort it please do the following.
> > >
> > > cat ~/.kde/share/config/KPackageKit
> > >
> > > make sure that the first 3 lines read as follows.
> > >   (Assumes you have Daily/None)
> > >
> > > [CheckUpdate]
> > > autoUpdate=0
> > > interval=86400
> > >
> > > If it does not match please do
> > >
> > > stat ~/.kde/share/config/KPackageKit
> > >
> > > note the time the file was last modified and see if that coincides with
> > > the crash of kpackagekit.
> > >
> > > reply to this post with your observations.
> >
> > I've been watching this with interest.  I've never had any problems with
> > KPackageKit, but my ~/.kde/share/config/KPackageKit only has
> >
> > [CheckUpdate]
> > interval=3600
> >
> > I have noticed recently that I can update, then find new updates being
> > notified quite soon afterwards.  I think this is a recent change to
> > behaviour.
> >
> > Anne
>
> My settings also misses the autoUpdate=0 line:
>
> [CheckUpdate]
> interval=86400
>
> Systemsettings -> Settings -> Automatically install is set to "none".
>
> I've had never any issues with KPackageKit on F11. But since I have an
> update (VirtualBox) pending (can't install it because of a missing
> dependency), KPackageKit 'eats' my computer memory and crashes a lot of
> programs. This happened two times this week. (my computer runs 24/7). In
> /var/log/messages I see 'Memory low' and  'Out of memory' messages. To
> solve the problem, I've to kill the kpackagekit deamon. Btw. after killing
> the deamon nothing is changed in the config file.
>
> Does anyone else have seen this?
>
> @Steven: I don't know if this issue is relevant for the issue you're trying
> to track down?
>
> Martin Kho
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Thanks Martin, everything is relevant while trying to track this down.  When 
you see the Memory low error do me a favor a run top and see what app is 
hogging the resources.

Thanks  Steven

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