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gnome-control-center package

System Info panel continually says "Checking for Updates"

Bug #859409 reported by Dylan McCall on 2011-09-26

This bug affects 5 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
gnome-control-center	Fix Released	Medium	gnome-bugs #671393
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned
Oneiric	Won't Fix	Low	Unassigned
Precise	Fix Released	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

If I run gnome-control-center as a user with administrative privileges and open the System Info panel, there is a button on the bottom right corner that supposedly allows you to install updates. However, this button is in its disabled state and says “Checking for Updates,” and it never seems to change.

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lp:ubuntu/precise/gnome-control-center

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Dylan McCall (dylanmccall) wrote on 2011-09-26:

The System Info panel with its disabled Update button Edit (58.8 KiB, image/png)

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-09-26:

This might be related to the warning from the console: Error getting PackageKit transaction ID: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files. The checking for updates button should be removed in an ubuntu patch or converted to use aptdaemon as a backend.
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Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Low

Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) on 2011-09-29

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2011-09-30:

That's not really a bug, the button is inactive because it doesn't work with the ubuntu packaging tools, it should perhaps be hidden rather than be unactivated. The label is describe what the button does when it's active

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2011-09-30

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee:	nobody → Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya)

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2011-10-11:

Rodrigo, having that button disabled is just confusing, shouldn't it be hidden rather?

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2011-11-09

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Oneiric):
status:	Triaged → Won't Fix

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2012-01-10

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Oneiric):
assignee:	Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya) → nobody
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Precise):
assignee:	Rodrigo Moya (rodrigo-moya) → nobody

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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote on 2012-02-14:

This appears to work as of today in Precise. indicator-session pulled in libpackagekit-glib2-14. Should gnome-control-center also build-depend on libpackagekit-glib2-dev then?

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Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton) wrote on 2012-02-15:

I agree; the button now actually does something in my Precise install.

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Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton) wrote on 2012-02-15:

And now after this morning's packagekit updates, it no longer works again. So much for hoping the problem magically fixed itself.

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Christopher Kyle Horton (christhehorton) wrote on 2012-02-17:

Working again as of tonight. I guess this bug can't make up its mind.

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Sam_ (and-sam) wrote on 2012-02-17:

Confirm #6 it launched update-manager, after latest updates it's disabled again but checking for upgrades.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2012-02-28:

#10

Jeremy, no, there is no Build-Depends required there, it does runtime checking on dbus

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2012-03-05

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu Precise):
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2012-03-06:

#11

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center - 1:3.3.91-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center (1:3.3.91-0ubuntu1) precise; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    - Fix updates buttons never saying "No updates" (lp: #859409)
    - Fix wacom segfault (lp: #938549)
  * debian/control.in:
    - updated gnome-settings-daemon requirement
  * debian/gnome-control-center-data.install:
    - updated for the new version
  * debian/patches/08_dont_crash_on_null_territories.patch:
    - dropped, the issue is fixed is in the new version
  * debian/patches/96_sound_nua_panel.patch:
    - updated to r268, fixes:
    - "Cannot switch profile on Bluetooth headset" (lp: #940282)
  * debian/patches/99_fix_display_crash.patch:
    - dropped, the fix is in the new version
-- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Mar 2012 19:10:59 +0100