On 07/16/2011 05:39 PM, James Bridge wrote:
On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 08:25 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 18:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 07/16/2011 06:14 PM, James Bridge wrote:
>>> I'm glad it's not just me... Has _anyone_ got it working?
>>>
>>
>> Works just fine here.
>>
>> Rahul
>
> Well I join those for whom it does nor work. I was told earlier that the
> automatic update only works for security updates and it is actually
> automatic. That is it does not ask if you want to update.
>
> Is any of this true?
> --
I have just run "Software Updates". There are three options; I have them
set to check daily, to install all updates (as opposed to security
updates) automatically and not to do it using mobile broadband (this is
a desktop anyway). I never see a window pop up and ask if I want to
update _unless_ I go to either Software Updates or Software Update and
start the check manually. Then I almost always get a list of things to
do, sometimes as many as 50 packages, depending how long since I last
checked. So the machine is certainly not updating automatically.
FWIW, I don't think an invisible update process would be desirable. Is
that what "automatic" means?
So far as I know, I am running Fedora 15 x86_64 with no modifications.
There must be a config file somewhere: does anyone know what it is
called? And for a daily check, when should the check happen - at first
boot up or at a particular time of day? If the latter, what happens if
the computer is turned off then? If the check is set for midnight, mine
would never actually be running. That might explain a lot!
I'm pretty sure that my system is not updating correctly either. I have
not seen an alert pop up on my screen since I upgraded from F13 to F14
using preupgrade for the second time on Sun Jul 10. Here's a line from
my daily log.
I've been looking at a continuing notice of a file needing to be updated
on my computer but I could never get the file to install because of a
missing dependency. Last night I decided to run the preupdate program
again. I ran it before and thought that it had correctly upgraded my
computer from F13 to F14 but it appears the the upgrade did not succeed
entirely. I think it's done correctly now. No more notice of a file
needing to be updated.
I just tried:
[root@mushroom ~]# yum update
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, presto, refresh-packagekit
Found 15 installed debuginfo package(s)
Enabling fedora-debuginfo: Fedora 13 - i386 - Debug
Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 - Nonfree
- Debug
Enabling rpmfusion-free-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 -
Free - Updates Debug
Enabling rpmfusion-free-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 - Free - Debug
Enabling updates-debuginfo: Fedora 13 - i386 - Updates - Debug
Enabling rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-debuginfo: RPM Fusion for Fedora 13 -
Nonfree
What I see troubles me. It appears to still be pointing to the old F13
repositories. Maybe this is what is wrong with my installation as well
as for the OP.
[root@mushroom ~]# uname -a
Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.35.13-92.fc14.i686.PAE #1 SMP Sat May 21
17:33:09 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
When I reboot the machine it claims to be F14 on the progress screen.
There must be a configuration file somewhere that is setting the
$releasever variable to F13 instead of F14. Could this effect the auto
updater too?
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