Fedora Installation :: No "Updates Available" Notifications With F10
Jan 25, 2009
On my previous FC7 boxes, I got icons in the top panel advising me that package updates were available (which I then installed with yum update). With F10, I sometimes briefly see a PackageKit icon in the top panel (not sure what it's advising me of), which disappears after a second or two - easily missed if I'm briefly distracted by something...
F10's Update System option nicely displays info about available security, bug fix and enhancement updates, so long as I remember to select this menu option. But there is nothing at boot or login time which tells me that there are updates available.
Is there some configuration setting I need to adjust to get notifications of new updates when available? There doesn't seem to be any service I can turn on to achieve this outcome.
Just an update on this - I've been away from my F10 box for a couple of hours, and upon return, I have a "Security updates available" popup! I left the box about half an hour after login - no popup at that time - how long should it take to see this popup if security updates are available? And what about if only bug fixes or enhancements are available - should there be some notification of this?
In the previous version of Ubuntu (10.10) I got a notification of updates in the lower Gnome panel.Now I am using 11.04 with Unity. I have not seen a notification of a update since then.How can I get updatenotification for Ubuntu 11.04 with unity?
I am using Kde 4.5 in Debian and I get some notifications after start that I need to update something. How can I disable it (I often don't want to waste bandwidth for such things)? I am using Debian Wheezy and Kde 4.5
For some reason Update Manager is not installing updates as of yesterday.I have it set to check daily and notify if updates are available. It has been working without issues for well over a year now.
Update Manager tells me updates are available and presents the list of security, recommended, and other updates. All are selected to update, but when I select Install Updates in Update Manager it returns with a Reading Package Information window overlaid on the main Update Manager window - building dependency tree then reading state information and dumps me back to the main Update Manager window without performing any update actions.
However, since Fedora 15 has been released GA. I haven't been able to get any updates. It saids Code: No package marked for update Here is the results of my yum upgrade code...
I'd like to write a kickstart file that installs available Fedora 14 updates as part of the installation process, much as if I was doing a standard Fedora 14 installation and had enabled the 'updates' repo.
So my question is, is there an easy way to do this? I don't want to have to go down the route of downloading all updated packages and maintaining my own update repo (or indeed, creating a repo with the dependencies listed above).
i just finished a fresh install of F14 and ran yum update, but it comes back with no updates? In the past, i've always had tons of updates after an install. Did the updates happen during installation so that I have a fully updated version?
After fiddling around with extensions for a while i noticed that my rhythmbox notifications didn't have the normal icons anymore (back, pause/play, forward). Instead the only button avalable is [Next].
I opened firefox and it restored some ~15 windows I had open last time I rebooted. The problem is that for each window it opened it gave me a notification that it's ready, and now they won't go away. I know that I could simply remove them one by one, but that's a bit tedious and I really want to know if there's a faster way to clear all notifications when I'm not intending to look at any of them.
Here's what's happening at the bottom of my screen: I just find it really annoying because it pops up every time I accidentally touch the bottom edge of the desktop.
I have what I suspect is a frequently encountered problem; indeed it may be an inevitable one. Moreover, I think that I know the solution to the problem. Let me explain.
History: 1. I downloaded f10 from the Fedora site.
2. I burned a DVD.
3. I installed f10 on my laptop using the DVD, and it seems to work correctly.
Symptoms: 4. I ran yum upgrade (as super user), and got the message 'No Packages marked for Update.'
5. I did the same thing for several days and got the same response.
6. I ran yum upgrade a* and got the same response. I thought that the mirror site might balk at large downloads.
Diagnosis: From what I have read on the web I think the following is what happens.
What I will call the original repository-key system, the one that I downloaded and that is now on my DVD, is limited. It merely concerns the packages that are already on my DVD, and these packages are never changed in the original repository. Therefore, yum is working correctly and will always tell me that 'No Packages marked for Update.'
Cure: There is a new repository-key system, and with it yum does real updates and upgrades. All I have to do is install the new repository-key system.
THE PROBLEM: ALTHOUGH I HAVE GOOGLED AND SEARCHED A LOT, I CANNOT FIND THE METHOD FOR GETTING AND INSTALLING THE NEW REPOSITORY-KEY SYSTEM IN F10. THERE MUST BE A SIMPLE STANDARDIZED METHOD. WHERE IS IT?
If the above is correct, then anyone who downloads and installs f10 as I did must face this problem.
I just installed Fedora 9 for the first time and have been unable to run updates nor am I able to use the add/remove programs feature. With the system updates the error I receive is within the /urs/share/packages area. I posted this http://amahi.pastebin.com/m131ea1d2 I also receive a different error when I run the Add/Remove programs feature and I receive a similar error. I also tried running these commands from root while logged in as root -- yum clean meatadata yum -y update but this had no change to the system. I also thought it may have been a RPMFusion issue so I looked at their FAQ and ran the command line to enable RPMFusion and it advises that this package is already installed. I am getting confused by this and not sure where to start so that I dont keep going over the same things with and getting the same results.
I have just installed F 12 - clean install- but when I go to get updates today (Dec 2nd) no updates appear.I have done yum clean and yum makecache but still no updates available in software updates
i'm a newbie to Fedora 12. While d/l the updates and installing I got this error. Where do I start?PS...I'm weening myself off MS so be gentle.
Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'> Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not found File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py, line 3125, in <module>
Two weeks ago I consumed all available FC13 updates. It was a terrible mistake. After that my my PC does not function properly and I have no clue how to fix it. I would like to get my PC in the previous (healthy) state. Is there an easy way to undo the updates? More than 60 packages were updated, but I do not remember which ones.
1. Which XFCE on install. dvd Fedora 12? 4.4, 4.6? 2. Can I download installation dvd with latest updates? 3. Is it possible to see content of installation dvd Fedora 12?
Is there a way to enable low disk space notifications in f13. It's very useful sometimes. I couldn't find any obvious way and it has been bugging me for a while.
I recently installed fedora 9. Everything works fine after install (except sound but thats a different story). When i run updates everything seems to have worked fine but when i reboot afterwards i get to the login screen which works but as soon as i log in it freezes? the only way to restart is to press the power switch...
I have a small atom-based workstation.I used preupgrade to move from F10 to F11.The process seemed to go smoothly.I boot up and everything is working as I expect, except for yum update.
So I am prompted in desktop for updates, but no information is given about the size of the packages involved. Sometimes, I don't like to wait too much for the dowload or to update packages which are too large.
Any settings dealing with that, so the individual size and the total per groups (security updates, etc) would be show without going in yum?
I just installed RPMFusion free and non-free, and now update manager is telling me that it needs to install updates "RPM Fusion (free) Repository Configuration" and "RPM Fusion (non-free) Repository Configuration". When I try to install these I get a message asking 'Do you trust the source of the packages?" and i click 'Yes", it then asks for a password for authentication, and then I get message saying "Could not update packages. Failed to process request" and under more details:
failed to install signature: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py", line 2926, in install_signature self.yumbase.getKeyForPackage(pkg, askcb = lambda x, y, z: True) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 4309, in getKeyForPackage result = ts.pgpImportPubkey(misc.procgpgkey(info['raw_key'])) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/transaction.py", line 59, in __getattr__ return self.getMethod(attr) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rpmUtils/transaction.py", line 69, in getMethod return getattr(self.ts, method) AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'pgpImportPubkey'
I'm running Natty on a Dell Precision M65 with a NVidia Quadro FX 350M graphics card. My problem is that I see no panels or applications, I'm able to start applications using the run dialog by pressing Alt+F2 and they start, but I can't see them.
Unity -- Fails Gnome Classic -- Fails Gnome Classic (No effects) -- works Unity-2D -- works
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but...well, I just installed Fedora after using Ubuntu for a while, and everything has been going good, except for installing upgrades. When I open the Update Manager, it says there is 399 updates. When I click install, after about ten seconds this pops up:Code:An internal system error has occuredA problem we were not expected has occured. Please report this bug in your distribution bugtracker wth the error description.
More details: Error Type: <class 'yum.Errors.RepoError'> Error Value: Error getting repository data for installed, repository not found
i'm attempting to know and understand fedora more and i will spend probably the next month pouring through all the forums and documents to answer more of my own questions. but there's quite a bit here, so i'd thought i'd ask some noob questions to get me started a little.
ive installed fedora 14 64bit and chosen only kde as the desktop. i selected an extra 2 repos besides the default, fedora 14 -x86_64 and fedora 14-x86_64 -updates. i believe this kernel is installed: 2.6.35.11-83
1. i can only see the 2 extra repo's as being "checked" in kpackagekit, shouldn't i see the default repo also ?
2. i dont have an applet in the system tray indicating the system is up to date, does fedora have this by default ? also after a clean install i ran yum check-update and yum update but the message sayes: "no packages marked for update". i'm not sure if the system is auto-updated during install or not, but with other distros iv tried there is always atleast a few updates needing to be done after install.
3. is kpackagekit the fedora gui package manager ? i dont see any others.
4. i want to upgrade to nvidia drivers, but i think i am missing a non-free repo or something. when i enter: yum install kmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.x86_64 i get messages stating "no package" i get the same message with yum install nvidia-settings.i also tried this: LANG=C yum --enablerepo=rpmfusion-nonfree info akmod-nvidia but it sayes repo not found.
These should be my last pleas for help with regard to Fedora 13. I've been unable to turn off the notifications that appear in the top right corner, despite a decent amount of searching on google. I can't remove any notifications package without removing a bunch of important software along with it. Also, F13 refuses to "Safely Remove" either of my external disks. I have to yank out the usb cord, touching wood each time.
I am using Fedora 13 and I have one program (wine) that I need to start grabbing for the updates-testing repo instead of the default repositories in order to get newer versions. I think I can figure out how to add that repository, but I need to know if there are any others I need to disable or any other changes I need to make to my system so that I don't confuse my set up with conflicting updates.
Also, is there anything special I need to do to be sure that only that one program is grabbed from the testing repo when I run regular updates?
