Comment # 10 on bug 1044046 from Jonathan Kang

(In reply to Michael Andres from comment #8)
> Yes, we should rephrase it as we can't kill PK. We can just ask PK via DBus
> to quit ASAP.
> 
> 
> 
> > 2017-06-13 18:20:08 <1> linux-bm9w.suse(2164) 
> >                     [packagekit] pk-backend-zypp.cpp(backend_get_distro_upgrades_thread):2096 
> > 2017-06-13 18:20:08 <1> linux-bm9w.suse(2164) 
> >                     [zypp] ZYppFactory.cc(writeLockFile):233
> >                     write: Lockfile /var/run/zypp.pid got pid 2164
> > 2017-06-13 19:09:11 <1> linux-bm9w.suse(2164) 
> >                     [zypp] ZYppFactory.cc(~ZYppGlobalLock):115
> >                     Cleanned lock file. (2164)
> 
> Don't know what PK is doing exactly, but it holds the lock for 50 min. It
> requested the installation of 354 packages in 'DownloadOnly' mode. Looks
> like PK is about to perform an update too.

It's gnome-settings-daemon's updates plugin that call PK. It checks whether
there
is any update available and download those packages. And then a notification
saying "Updates Available" will pop up.