online update not working (OS11.1)

since about a week the kupdateapplet returns an error
“DBus error : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied : Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=“method_call”, sender=”:1.20" (uid=1000 pid=3541 comm=“kupdateapplet “) interface=“org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction” member=“GetRepoList” error name=”(unset)” requested_reply=0 destination=“org.freedesktop.PackageKit” (uid=0 pid=4394 comm="/usr/sbin/packagekitd “))”

‘zypper lu’ and ‘yast2 online_update’ both work fine in the meantime.
Before that the system had a crash, possibly with filesystem errors. Any idea how to fix this?

Thanks!

dich wrote:

> since about a week the kupdateapplet returns an error
> “DBus error : org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied : Rejected send
> message, 1 matched rules; type=“method_call”, sender=”:1.20" (uid=1000
> pid=3541 comm=“kupdateapplet “)
> interface=“org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction” member=“GetRepoList”
> error name=”(unset)” requested_reply=0
> destination=“org.freedesktop.PackageKit” (uid=0 pid=4394
> comm="/usr/sbin/packagekitd “))”
>
> ‘zypper lu’ and ‘yast2 online_update’ both work fine in the meantime.
> Before that the system had a crash, possibly with filesystem errors.
> Any idea how to fix this?

Install the zypp backend for the updater icon (kde4-kupdateapplet-zypp)
and switch to the “ZYpp Plugin” backend via right click / configure
applet.

Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger

Thank you Andreas,
I tried that, the updater found some updates, and the applet crashed when performing the update itself, right in the beginning. I suspect now something’s wrong with my KDE4 libs (I overlooked the fact that I use kde4 updater applet running under kde3). Probably got some weird kde4 repos in the system…
Thanks for any help!

dich wrote:
> I tried that, the updater found some updates, and the applet crashed
> when performing the update itself, right in the beginning. I suspect now
> something’s wrong with my KDE4 libs (I overlooked the fact that I use
> kde4 updater applet running under kde3). Probably got some weird kde4
> repos in the system…

No, that’s correct, the kupdaterapplet depends on libkde4 and is
intended for both KDE3 and KDE4. There isn’t a pure KDE3 version
anymore.

Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger

Andreas,
Thanks you have shown me how to restore one of my favorite features. This happened to me a few weeks back & thought it was gone forever. I love the updater you’ve made me quite happy!
I’m adding to your rep.