Original problem was dbus error "Failed to reset client" and could not update system from Inet. This was fixed by editing /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.conf and setting <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction"/> I also edited /etc/dbus-1/system.conf and commented out the line: <allow send_requested_reply="true" send_type="method_return"/> As per Linux Forum advice and bug fixes. This allowed the PackageKit updater to function correctly and update the system but upon completion two dialog boxes appeared reporting an 'unspecified' error but failing to detail the error. The updates appear to have gone in correctly.
(In reply to comment #0) > Original problem was dbus error "Failed to reset client" and could not update > system from Inet. This was fixed by editing > /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.conf and setting > <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction"/> Not D-Bus' bug: if PackageKit doesn't allow everything it should allow, that's not our fault. > I also edited /etc/dbus-1/system.conf and commented out the line: > <allow send_requested_reply="true" send_type="method_return"/> > As per Linux Forum advice and bug fixes. Who told to do this? What justification did they give? Making random edits to system.conf is not something we can support. If you break it (as you're likely to if you don't understand the implications in detail), you get to keep both pieces. > This allowed the PackageKit updater to function correctly and update the system > but upon completion two dialog boxes appeared reporting an 'unspecified' error > but failing to detail the error. The updates appear to have gone in correctly. I suspect that this is because commenting out that line meant that replies from PK saying "everything's OK" were disallowed - fallout from the above edit.
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