Bug 16887

Summary:	Cauldron distro release announced on Mageia 5 station
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Fred Kreyen <fredkreyen>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	doktor5000, marja11, stormi-mageia, thierry.vignaud
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Fred Kreyen 2015-10-03 19:36:54 CEST

Description of problem:

Have a laptop with the lastly distributed Mageia 5 release (- KSD)

Normally I do receive all updates on this distro version through the update applet - and also got several updates that way yesterday evening.
After finishing updating - no other updates were found and closed the updating tool.

However after about 5 minutes a new applet popped up on the task-bar indicating there's a new distribution release .....
This seems however to be CAULDRON - what I do not use as I'm on Mageia version 5.

My other pc's did after the same regular updates as mentioned above -- not get/show this specific applet informing about a distribution release....

Find below the output of /etc/product.id and /etc/mageia-release;

[code]fred@lap1 ~]$ ls -l /etc/product.id
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 22 21:46 /etc/product.id -> product.id.Default
[fred@lap1 ~]$ [/code]

[code][fred@lap1 ~]$ ls l /etc/mageia-release
ls: cannot access l: No such file or directory
/etc/mageia-release
[fred@lap1 ~]$[/code]

How reproducible:

Every time I login:

Just after starting the pc., the updater applet came up again - when clicking it it mentions there's a new version of Mageia distribution released and if I want to updateto Mageia version 5..... But I do have already Mageia 5 since the release in June...
 
Sure I can ignore it, but does this not influence or stop me from receiving the normal updates to Mageia 5 now ..?




Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 Fred Kreyen 2015-10-03 19:45:31 CEST

My question remains --- when I ignore the applet --- does it not disturb my normal updates to Mageia version 5 --  AND -- is there anyway
to get this applet stop providing the alert for  a new distribution version 5 which I already have .. ?

When clicking the applet it exactly looks the same now as the one back in June and when clicking for more information
it leads me to the url:  https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_5_Release_Notes

Comment 2 Rémi Verschelde 2015-10-03 20:03:43 CEST

(In reply to Fred Kreyen from comment #0)
> Find below the output of /etc/product.id and /etc/mageia-release;
> 
> [code]fred@lap1 ~]$ ls -l /etc/product.id
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 22 21:46 /etc/product.id -> product.id.Default
> [fred@lap1 ~]$ [/code]
> 
> [code][fred@lap1 ~]$ ls l /etc/mageia-release
> ls: cannot access l: No such file or directory
> /etc/mageia-release
> [fred@lap1 ~]$[/code]

"ls -l" is not really useful here, it would be more interesting to know the contents of those files, i.e.:
cat /etc/product.id
cat /etc/mageia-release

Florian Hubold 2015-10-03 20:08:13 CEST

CC: (none) => doktor5000, stormi

Comment 3 Florian Hubold 2015-10-03 20:09:04 CEST

(In reply to Rémi Verschelde from comment #2)
> "ls -l" is not really useful here, it would be more interesting to know the
> contents of those files, i.e.:
> cat /etc/product.id
> cat /etc/mageia-release

Already asked for that via https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?p=59713#p59713 where it was initially reported ;)

Comment 4 Fred Kreyen 2015-10-03 20:20:17 CEST

[code][fred@lap1 ~]$ cat /etc/product.id
vendor=Mageia.Org,distribution=Mageia,type=Basic,version=5,branch=Official,release=5,arch=i586,product=Default
[fred@lap1 ~]$ [/code]


[code][fred@lap1 ~]$ cat /etc/mageia-release
Mageia release 5 (Official) for i586
[fred@lap1 ~]$ [/code]

Comment 5 Marja Van Waes 2016-05-23 12:26:44 CEST

I still don't understand how this could happen. 

Anyway, it wasn't reported on any other computer, so seems to have been something that only happened on that one machine (maybe only one bit spontaneously changing its value)

Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED
CC: (none) => marja11
Ever confirmed: 1 => 0

Comment 6 Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-17 16:04:26 CEST

Not an installer issue

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Component: Installer => RPM Packages

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2017-06-05 11:24:25 CEST

Closing as OLD, now, because, afaik, this only occurred once on one system, hasn't re-occurred since 2015 and, of course, because we're working towards Mageia 6 release, after which Mageia 5 stations are expected to inform us of the new release.

If a Mageia 6 station informs about a new Mageia distro release before Mageia 7 stable is released, then please open a new bug report and refer to this report in it.

Resolution: (none) => OLD
Status: UNCONFIRMED => RESOLVED