Gnome Software Update doesn't work

[Chris Murphy]

On Jun 2, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

>> Nothing happens. There's no feedback in the Software Update application. There's no disk activity. There's no network activity. But top reports gpk-update-view is using 100% CPU, the computer is hot, fans are blowing loudly. This goes on for 10 minutes and I click the Quit button in Software Update.
> 
> Are you sure nothing happens?

Pretty sure. No disk or internet activity, now for 25 minutes. And prior to this yumBackend.py had downloaded all the packages already. yum or dnf by themselves would have executed this whole thing in less than 10 minutes.

> The GUI of gpk-update-application is to be
> frank somewhat terrible,

Pure diplomacy.



> but it _did_ work when I tested it for Beta.
> Depending on what stage it's at there may be a progress bar at the
> bottom, or the icons in the main list-of-updates pane may change if you
> watch them carefully. 'pkmon' may be able to tell you more about what's
> going on.

Right after clicking Install Updates a status bar appears that says Running, then Resolving Dependencies, then vanishes. There's no status bar after that, while it consumes CPU like mad.

# pkmon
Transaction:
  [none]
daemon connected=1
network status=wired


>> 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968936

OK so the component is packagekit for this. What is it for Software Update?


Chris Murphy