When running Install software I get the following message
PackageKit is blocking software management.
This happens when the updater aaplet ir another software management application is running
Ask Package kit to quit?
YES/NO
If you choose yes the same message appears again and aigain and again, ie PackageKit never stops
When you choose no
**Accesing the SOftware management failed**
System management is locked by the application with pid 2474 (or whatever) (/usr/lib/packagekitd).
Close this application before trying again
Would you like to abort or try again?
Trying again gets you nowhere
If you try to stop the pid with top in a Terminal it says that it is an invalid id
I have via System ==> Configuration ==> Software management
got to Apper
I clicked on the wrench and chose
Check for distribution upgrades **NEVER
**Check for updtes **NEVER**
wait until packagekitd has finished doing what it wants to do (I guess it’s refreshing it’s software list, that can take a while the first time), it will quit then
If you don’t want to use apper anyway, you can uninstall PackageKit and won’t have this problem ever again.
Or you can disable “Apper Monitor” in “Configure Desktop”->“Startup and Shutdown”->“Service Manager”
But you won’t be notified of updates then anymore.
So you would have to check manually with YaST/zypper or configure automatic update installation in YaST.
Or you can disable "Apper Monitor" in "Configure Desktop"->"Startup and Shutdown"->"Service Manager"
Please explain to me where these menus are! I am using KDE on 12.3 and they are not there!
This is definitely not a refresh error unless it needs days and days to refresh! It worked fine utnil recently. I tried to install Chrome today and then I noticed the propblem
If I search for Service Manager and run it then I get an
On 05/10/2013 06:36 AM, ClrScr wrote:
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> jandre@linux-azzt:~> ps aux | grep packagekitjandre 5641 0.0 0.0 4008 764 pts/0 S+ 21:07 0:00 grep --color=auto packagekitjandre@linux-azzt:~> kill 5641bash: kill: (5641) - No such processjandre@linux-azzt:~> kill 4008bash: kill: (4008) - No such process
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> So I do not know!Thanks!
i can think of two things that might have happened:
you get the notice that you can’t install because package kit is
blocking
you run the ps to get the pid
packagekit finishes and goes dark
kill pid correctly fails to find package kit running
or
at some previous time, while packagekit was running (and had its lock on the install process) something happened to stop packagekit
from completing its work and UNlocking the block
that lock remains in place irrespective of the reality that
packagekit is not running
what could have caused that: power failure, user rude kills process,
sun spot activity, black cat in path, etc
sorry, i don’t know where that (maybe) still existing lock is, but
root can remove it.
and, there may be 1000s of other ways for this paradox to present
itself…
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dd
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobile” of operating systems!
In the KDE startmenu, choose “Configure Desktop” on the Favorites tab. Or run “systemsettings” in Konsole.
This is definitely not a refresh error unless it needs days and days to refresh! It worked fine utnil recently. I tried to install Chrome today and then I noticed the propblem
If I search for Service Manager and run it then I get an
UNable to contact KDED
error message
You seem to have another problem here. But it could be caused by a hanging Apper Monitor/PackageKit.
How do I kill pakage kit if i dont know the pid?
Use KDE’s Activity Monitor. (Press Ctrl+ESC)
Or use ‘killall processname’. You may have to use the ‘-KILL’ switch…
Oh and:
You have the pid there…
If you can’t kill it, that’s because it has already quit…