Description of problem: See title. Problem started after an update the same day. After the update, the icon did not disappear. During the update process at least some applications were displayed as installed, and some displayed as removed. To remove the icon, various things were tried in the context menu, apparently without effect. Finally the quit option ("quitter" in french) was used to cancel the display of the icon. On checking a few hours later, via rpmdrake, there were updates available. Unknown if they were new updates, or left over from the previous attempt. Tried logging off/on and rebooting to redisplay the mgaapplet icon, without success. In the console, tried running mgaapplet to make the applet reappear, without effect. Ran mgaupdate, and the display indicated no updates available, but rpmdrake indicated many updates available, and was able to do some of those updates. So mgaupdate run from console does not recognize that updates are available, maybe the real problem ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): see source rpm. How reproducible: Could be just corrupted file ? Or a recent related update ? Recent bug reports for plasma indicate that a different mechanism is now used there. Maybe a plasma-related update ? Under mga7, Mate desktop, up to date. It doesn't seem to effect rpmdrake, which shows every sign of working correctly. However without mgaapplet, there is no notification of available updates. Steps to Reproduce: see above.
After 24 hours, I start to get notice of updates again. I discovered that I had core updates testing active in rpmdrake. After deactivating that, rpmdrake shows no updates available. So mgaapplet / mgaupdates must have been working all along. Sorry for the noise
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => INVALID