Bug 21365

Summary:	mgaapplet-update-checker does not detect packages to update
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Christian C <bugzzzz>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia tools maintainers <mageiatools>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	marja11
Version:	5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	mgaonline-3.15-1.mga5	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	partial list of packages to be updated when mgaapplet-update-checker does not detect anything

Description Christian C 2017-07-26 22:53:00 CEST

Description of problem:
mgaapplet-update-checker starts periodically from mgaapplet but does not detect new updates :

Jul 26 20:44:17 station mgaapplet-update-checker[2804]: ### Program is starting ###
Jul 26 20:44:18 station mgaapplet-update-checker[2804]: running: urpmi.update --update
Jul 26 20:44:30 station mgaapplet-update-checker[2804]: updating inactive backport media Core Backports (distrib7), Nonfree Backports (distrib17), Tainted Backports (distrib27), Core 32bit Backports (distrib34), Nonfree 32bit Backports (distrib39), Tainted 32bit Backports (distrib44)
Jul 26 20:44:30 station mgaapplet-update-checker[2804]: running: urpmi.update Core Backports (distrib7)
Jul 26 20:44:32 station mgaapplet-update-checker[2804]: running: urpmi.update Nonfree Backports (distrib17)
Jul 26 20:44:34 station mgaapplet-update-checker[2804]: running: urpmi.update Tainted Backports (distrib27)
Jul 26 20:44:36 station mgaapplet-update-checker[2804]: running: urpmi.update Core 32bit Backports (distrib34)
Jul 26 20:44:39 station mgaapplet-update-checker[2804]: running: urpmi.update Nonfree 32bit Backports (distrib39)
Jul 26 20:44:41 station mgaapplet-update-checker[2804]: running: urpmi.update Tainted 32bit Backports (distrib44)
Jul 26 20:44:46 station mgaapplet[4396]: Packages are up to date

When MCC->Software management->Update your system is run at the same time, several packages are proposed for update (see attached file).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
one time for the moment

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Christian C 2017-07-26 22:55:46 CEST

Created attachment 9521 [details]
partial list of packages to be updated when mgaapplet-update-checker does not detect anything

Marja Van Waes 2017-07-27 19:52:11 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => mageiatools

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2018-09-20 09:12:56 CEST

(In reply to Christian CHEVALIER from comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> mgaapplet-update-checker starts periodically from mgaapplet but does not
> detect new updates :
> 

> 
> When MCC->Software management->Update your system is run at the same time,
> several packages are proposed for update (see attached file).
> 


If you _really_ ran both applications at the very same time, then one of them locked the rpm database, so that the other couldn't access it. That isn't a bug, that's a feature that helps prevent getting a messed up database.

Anyway, for Mageia 6 or later (because Mga5 is no longer supported):
if you run "MCC->Software management->Update your system" and, when there are updates, close MCC without updating and then run mgaapplet-update-checker and it does not show the available updates, then please run, as root:

  journalctl -ab > log.txt

attach log.txt to this bug report, reopen it and adjust its Version:

(Closing as OLD, because Mga5 is no longer supported at all)

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