This application does not shut down properly and I dont know how to kill it. when I go into the processes to see what processes are running its not in there.
How do I kill it?
I am seeing “/usr/lib/packagekitd” running as a system process (owned by root) and probably started when the system booted, and I am seeing “/usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/kpackagekitsmarticon” as a user process (owned by me), presumably started by KDE when I logged in.
On second thoughts, “packagekitd” has a very recent time stamp. I’m not sure what is starting that. Perhaps it is being restarted and used for polling.
its used for updating or installing packages and it randomly stops me from starting yast software installer or installing new software and then randomly goes away
Interestingly it repeated failed with one user; so I always had to go to YaST>Onliine update. Now it never appears on that user. However, it still appears on another user and updates perfectly each time. No idea why.
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:36:03 GMT, john hudson
<john_hudson@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
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>Interestingly it repeated failed with one user; so I always had to go to
>YaST>Onliine update. Now it never appears on that user. However, it
>still appears on another user and updates perfectly each time. No idea
>why.
I do not seem to have packagekit running. Then again i have all kinds of
auto update turned off, rather completely. I prefer to do all my updates
manually anyway.
but how to actualy turn off the packagekit?
Use the YaST Software Manager (aka “Install/Remove Software)
Search for packages using “packagekit”
Remove everything found that is installed.
YOU (YaST On-line Update will stiil be available” as will e.g. “zypper up repo-update”.
uninstalling all packages helped, thanks!