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PackageKit 1.2.5 unable to perform upgrades

Bug #1961837 reported by Erich Eickmeyer on 2022-02-22

This bug affects 2 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
PackageKit	Fix Released	Unknown	auto-github-packagekit-packagekit #534
packagekit (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Critical	Matthias Klumpp
Jammy	Fix Released	Critical	Matthias Klumpp

Bug Description

After being notified of upgrades available in Plasma Discover, I attempted to do an upgrade of all available packages. Unfortunately, it would not but also wouldn't show an error.

I attempted to run 'pkcon update' which showed no available upgrades, whereas 'apt update' showed several packages available for upgrade.

Expected behavior: 'pkcon update' would have performed the upgrade.
Actual behavior: 'pkcon update' did nothing, saying no packages were available to upgrade.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: packagekit 1.2.5-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-18.18-lowlatency 5.15.12
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-18-lowlatency x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu77
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Tue Feb 22 11:33:52 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-03-20 (338 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Alpha amd64 (20210320)
SourcePackage: packagekit
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2021-11-07 (107 days ago)

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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote on 2022-02-22:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (320 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote on 2022-02-22:

Matthias, could this be a result of allowing PK to switch versions?

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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote on 2022-02-22:

Julian, we've got some discussion upstream:

https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/issues/534

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Matthias Klumpp (ximion) wrote on 2022-02-22:

Sounded like a daemon crash at first, but the deeper I dig the more nonsensical it gets at the moment...

Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) on 2022-02-22

Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Critical

Matthias Klumpp (ximion) on 2022-02-22

Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Matthias Klumpp (ximion)
Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu Jammy):
status:	New → In Progress

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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote on 2022-02-22:

Patch containing fix Edit (1.4 KiB, text/plain)

I patched PackageKit from Matthias's upstream commits, and it works as expected now. Attached said patch, will also attach debdiff.

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Erich Eickmeyer (eeickmeyer) wrote on 2022-02-22:

packagekit_1.2.5-1ubuntu2.debdiff Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain)

Debdiff as mentioned above

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Matthias Klumpp (ximion) wrote on 2022-02-23:

Debian package is available: https://tracker.debian.org/news/1305719/accepted-packagekit-125-2-source-into-unstable/
I forgot to mark this issue as being explicitly closed in the changelog, but I guess Julian can do that when merging the changes into Ubuntu :-)

Changed in packagekit (Ubuntu Jammy):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) on 2022-02-23

tags:

added: patch

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2022-02-23

Changed in packagekit:
status:	Unknown → Fix Released

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2022-02-24:

This bug was fixed in the package packagekit - 1.2.5-2ubuntu1

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packagekit (1.2.5-2ubuntu1) jammy; urgency=low

* Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #1961837). Remaining changes:
- debian/control: Added recommends for packagekit-installer

packagekit (1.2.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Add fix-single-candidate-pkgid-emission.patch
    - Unblock updates by emitting package-IDs again even if there
      is just one candidate available.

-- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Wed, 23 Feb 2022 11:10:46 +0100