I have just installed openSUSE 13.2 in Virtual Box. In openSUSE I was told that 16 upgrades needed to be installed. When I clicked ‘Installl’ another message said that I needed to install 4 upgrades and then a request to accept a Licence Agreement, which I did.
I then had a dialog box with the message ‘Waiting for other tasks’ (or something very similar.) I left this running overnight and after about 10 hours it was still showing this message. I then exited openSUSE. I presume no upgrades were made.
It’s a bug in PackageKit.
If a license agreement is needed, it just hangs afterwards until something interacts with it.
So run “pkcon get-updates” in a terminal window, or right-click on the applet and select “Check for new updates” (you can also run Apper the application and check for updates there). It should continue installing the updates then.
Or, you can of course also use YaST->Online Update or “zypper patch” to install the updates.
I tried pkcon get-updates and was told it was waiting in a queue. I tried YaST → Online Update and was told ‘PackageKit is blocking software management…Ask PackageKit to quit?’ I said Yes but the message came up several times so I aborted the whole operation.
On my laptop under Virtual Box openSUSE is completely unusable - I wait anything from 10-30 seconds for a response to a mouse click
On 2015-08-19 03:56, Paolo R wrote:
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> I tried pkcon get-updates and was told it was waiting in a queue. I
> tried YaST → Online Update and was told ‘PackageKit is blocking
> software management…Ask PackageKit to quit?’ I said Yes but the
> message came up several times so I aborted the whole operation.
Unfortunately, 30 seconds is typically not long enough to wait and there is no notification when apper isn’t blocking…
I typically just do something else for awhile and by the time I’m done with that apper has released its lock.
If this becomes too much, you can turn off apper but then would need to manually invoke patching/updating (if you reboot often, this might not be an issue. Just be sure to do it with each boot. Or just get in a habit of updating daily). Or, install a different Desktop that doesn’t install apper. If you like KDE, then you can instead use LXDE Desktop which on openSUSE has a bit of “KDE-like” flavor.
“zypper patch” will only pull down security patches. If you want to keep your system up to date with feature and other non-security improvements, you should “update” by running the following
