Bugzilla – Bug 481652
[kupdateapplet] does not check for updates
Last modified: 2010-12-10 10:32:43 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-0.1.2 Firefox/3.0.6 kupdateapplet on my system does not seem to be checking for updates at all. It's running all the time but never reports available updates. When I manually select "Check Now" from it's menu, it allways finds available updates. file:///home/wilfred/.kde4/share/config/kupdateappletrc contains: [General] BackendPlugin=packagekit_plugin LastCheckTime=2009,3,3,21,58,51 LastDistroUpgradeCheckTime=2009,2,26,21,8,51 ShowSystemProfilePopup=false [Notification Messages] systemtrayquitUpdater Applet=false I did try to turn off the options for "charger" and "low load". I tried shorter check intervals, but none made any difference. My system is generally under low load (I checked). My desktop is Kde3, my system is openSUSE 11.1 (x86_64) (Upgraded from 10.3 in januari) # rpm -qa | grep kupdate kde4-kupdateapplet-0.8.34-2.1 kde4-kupdateapplet-zypp-0.8.34-2.1 kde4-kupdateapplet-packagekit-0.8.34-2.1 Anything else I can try of report here about this problem? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run my system ;) 2. 3. Actual Results: No available updates are shown ever. Expected Results: Show available updates when they are availabel
Could you please test the latest version from my build service repository? http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/tgoettlicher/openSUSE_11.1/
It's looking good: After installing the updates: # rpm -qa | grep kupdate kde4-kupdateapplet-zypp-0.8.41-1.3 kde4-kupdateapplet-packagekit-0.8.41-1.3 kde4-kupdateapplet-0.8.41-1.3 ...and restarting kupdateapplet, it immediately reported a number of updates. I'll keep an eye on it for a couple of days. Either way, I'll report back here.
(In reply to comment #1) > Could you please test the latest version from my build service repository? > > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/tgoettlicher/openSUSE_11.1/ I am running KDE 4.2.1, but your version depends on KDE 4.1.3. Could you update it's dependencies?
It still doesn't work right. Yesterday I checked with Yast online update if there where updates: Security: java-1_6_0-sun - java-1_6_0-sun: Security update to JDK 6 update 13. java-1_5_0-sun - java-1_5_0-sun: Security update to JDK 5 update 18. Recommended: mdadm - mdadm: fixed several bugs translation-update - General Post-GA Translation Update gnome-control-center - Fixes for multihead bugs and network proxy configuration These were available, but I didn't install them. My kupdateapplet is configured to check for updates every 6 hours, so it should have reported them by now, but it didn't. I just did a manual "Check now" from the kupdateapplet menu, and it reported above updates and 2 more. In the time since my last comment (on 17/03) it only once reported available updates...
Your settings file doesn't contain following lines > Interval=6 > SkipCheckOnBattery=false > SkipCheckSystemBusy=false These lines should be written to the config file when you disable the checkboxes for "charger" and "low load" and choose shorter check intervals. Could you please: - quit kupdateapplet - delete the settings file - restart kupdateapplet - change the settings using the config dialog - quit kupdateapplet - verify the settings file - start kupdateapplet
Sorry about the confusion, but I changed my config after I installed the update from your repository. So it did already contained the lines you qouted. Anyway, I followed the steps you suggested. My settings file now contains the following: [General] BackendPlugin=packagekit_plugin DriverSearch=true Interval=4 LastCheckTime=2009,4,3,20,5,31 LastDistroUpgradeCheckTime=2009,4,3,20,5,31 SkipCheckOnBattery=false SkipCheckSystemBusy=false [Notification Messages] systemtrayquitUpdater Applet=false I won't change that anymore. ;) I'll report back in a couple of days when it did or didn't report any available updates...
Well, it didn't... 2 days ago I checked with Yast online update if there were updates available: There were 6 security updates (kernel,...) and 2 recommended. Kupdateapplet still says "No updates available". It doesn't seem to have checked anything for 7 days now: /home/wilfred/.kde4/share/config/kupdateappletrc : [General] BackendPlugin=packagekit_plugin DriverSearch=true Interval=4 LastCheckTime=2009,4,4,0,5,35 LastDistroUpgradeCheckTime=2009,4,3,20,5,31 SkipCheckOnBattery=false SkipCheckSystemBusy=false [Notification Messages] systemtrayquitUpdater Applet=false And I'm sure it's running: # pgrep -l kupdateapplet 11592 kupdateapplet
*** Bug 496956 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
kupdateapplet will be replaced by kpackagekit. That's the reason for closing this bug report. kpackagekit is a community project that support a lot of awesome features. See: http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/KPackageKit?content=84745