Bug 20320

Summary: PackageKit updates in continuous loop
Product: PackageKit Reporter: David Zwarg <davidz-bz>
Component: backend-zyppAssignee: Scott Reeves <scottreeves4>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: davidz-bz
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: All   
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Attachments: log output repeated when PackageKit is endlessly looping

Description David Zwarg 2009-02-25 17:56:32 UTC
Created attachment 23301 [details]
log output repeated when PackageKit is endlessly looping

PackageKit is running on startup to check for updates, and I can see in the menu bar the PackageKit icon continuously cycling between 4 icon states, with each cycle lasting ~5 seconds.

~> uname -a
Linux kauai 2.6.27.7-9-default #1 SMP 2008-12-04 18:10:04 +0100 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
OpenSUSE 11.1

~> rpm -qli PackageKit
Name        : PackageKit                   Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 0.3.11                            Vendor: openSUSE
Release     : 1.12                          Build Date: Wed 03 Dec 2008 07:25:13 AM EST
Install Date: Wed 10 Dec 2008 01:58:51 AM EST      Build Host: build21
Group       : System/Daemons                Source RPM: PackageKit-0.3.11-1.12.src.rpm
Size        : 2041227                          License: GPL v2 or later
Signature   : RSA/8, Wed 03 Dec 2008 07:26:31 AM EST, Key ID b88b2fd43dbdc284

Attached is the output of the log, repeated over and over again.
Comment 1 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-01-05 10:22:47 UTC
Hi there,
This bug report is very old and based on a version not supported anymore. By upgrading to a newer version of PackageKit you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of PackageKit.
Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with the latest version.

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