I found this fix at fedoraforum.org. I now have an update icon in my system tray. And an updates available panel pops up when updates are available. Clicking on that automatically brings up Pup.
Update notifications not working? This will fix it.
http://forum.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=157125&highlight=yum...
-- macroron
It's not notifications I have problems with. I've never managed to get yum-updatesd to do anything at all, either on Fedora Core 6 or Fedora 7, on nearly a dozen different machines. It starts up happily and logs no problems, but it never downloads or installs any packages.
Running yum manually, or out of cron, works just fine, so there's no problem with my yum config.
I just had another go at leaving yum-updatesd running, and not only did it not do anything but now it's locked up hard -- won't die when kill -9ed.
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On 9/3/07, Danny Yee danny@anatomy.usyd.edu.au wrote:
It's not notifications I have problems with. I've never managed to get yum-updatesd to do anything at all, either on Fedora Core 6 or Fedora 7, on nearly a dozen different machines. It starts up happily and logs no problems, but it never downloads or installs any packages.
Running yum manually, or out of cron, works just fine, so there's no problem with my yum config.
Get the yum-updatesd from Fedora 8 test version. It will work to do the auto downloads. I'm using it.
$ rpm -q yum-updatesd yum-updatesd-0.4-1.fc8
Assuming you turn on the auto updates in the config file. By default, it does not install things.
Believe me, this will work. I was one of the complainers here about yum-updatesd for quite a while
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