[Bug 725570] New: packagekit spamming logs every 20 seconds.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c0 Summary: packagekit spamming logs every 20 seconds. Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Beta 1 Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: jnelson-suse@jamponi.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1 packagekit seems to spamming /var/log/messages (or syslog, at any rate) every 20 seconds: Oct 20 12:23:28 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 20 12:23:28 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 20 12:23:48 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 20 12:23:48 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 20 12:24:08 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 20 12:24:08 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 20 12:24:28 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 20 12:24:28 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 20 12:24:48 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 20 12:24:48 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 20 12:25:08 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 20 12:25:08 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 20 12:25:28 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 20 12:25:28 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 20 12:25:48 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 20 12:25:48 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 20 12:26:08 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 20 12:26:08 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 20 12:26:28 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 20 12:26:28 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 20 12:26:48 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Oct 20 12:26:48 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Oct 20 12:27:08 frank dbus[1032]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Is this systemd perhaps? Something, in any case, is mighty noisy. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c zj jia <zjjia@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |zjjia@suse.com AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo. |ovo.novell.com |novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c1 Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |vuntz@suse.com InfoProvider| |fcrozat@suse.com --- Comment #1 from Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> 2011-10-25 07:14:18 UTC --- Frédéric: does this look systemd-related? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c2 Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW CC| |fcrozat@suse.com InfoProvider|fcrozat@suse.com | --- Comment #2 from Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@suse.com> 2011-10-25 08:36:43 UTC --- systemd is now logging its services output to syslog. It looks like dbus is a little too verbose by defaut. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c3 Bryan Webb <howard.bryan.webb@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |howard.bryan.webb@gmail.com --- Comment #3 from Bryan Webb <howard.bryan.webb@gmail.com> 2011-11-01 17:24:59 UTC --- I'm having this problem too on RC1, but I am getting the following 6 messages repeated (not the 2 message cycle quoted in the original bug report above): Nov 1 10:17:27 t4 dbus[897]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Nov 1 10:17:27 t4 dbus-daemon[897]: dbus[897]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Nov 1 10:17:27 t4 dbus-daemon[897]: (packagekitd:5949): PackageKit-Zypp-DEBUG: zypp_backend_initialize Nov 1 10:17:27 t4 dbus[897]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Nov 1 10:17:27 t4 dbus-daemon[897]: dbus[897]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit' Nov 1 10:17:46 t4 dbus-daemon[897]: (packagekitd:5949): PackageKit-Zypp-DEBUG: zypp_backend_destroy -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c4 Segundo Luis Martín Díaz Sotomayor <smartinds@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P2 - High CC| |smartinds@gmail.com --- Comment #4 from Segundo Luis Martín Díaz Sotomayor <smartinds@gmail.com> 2011-11-08 05:50:46 UTC --- It's very annoying. I can't use zypper or yast because packagekit is running. I kill "packagekitd" but 20 seconds later.... PLAF! another time is running. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c5 Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |jnelson-suse@jamponi.net --- Comment #5 from Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> 2011-11-08 09:03:49 UTC --- Can you find out what is talking to PackageKit? You can use this as a beginning: dbus-monitor --system "interface='org.freedesktop.PackageKit'" -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c6 Ales Seifert <seifert@alesak.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW CC| |seifert@alesak.net InfoProvider|jnelson-suse@jamponi.net | --- Comment #6 from Ales Seifert <seifert@alesak.net> 2012-01-01 07:26:38 UTC --- In my case dbus-monitor --system "interface='org.freedesktop.PackageKit'" returns nothing (left it for few minutes), looks like there is no activity on it. Only output is: signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=:1.3750 serial=2 path=/org/freedesktop/DBus; interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameAcquired string ":1.3750" But in the same time there are 6 lines logged in every minute. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c7 --- Comment #7 from Ales Seifert <seifert@alesak.net> 2012-01-01 07:30:39 UTC --- I just saw it looks like packagekitd process is restarted with new PID every 20sec. But Why? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c8 --- Comment #8 from Ales Seifert <seifert@alesak.net> 2012-01-01 07:47:38 UTC --- There is option in /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf with value 15 in my case # Shut down the daemon after this many seconds idle. 0 means don't shutdown. # # default=300 ShutdownTimeout=15 when I changed the value to 0 daemon stopped reloading and /var/log/messages is quiet. Tried start the software management in Yast and it seams that running packageitd daemon is not blocking anything. Do you thing that is it? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c9 --- Comment #9 from Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@jamponi.net> 2012-02-06 16:49:47 UTC --- I'm still having this problem. I'm fully up-to-date. Looks to me like it's every 15 minutes or so. apper says "check daily". /etc/sysconfig/packagekit-background has ENABLED=no. Every 15 minutes still chews up a fair bit of CPU and battery life. grep PackageKit /var/log/messages | grep Activating | grep -v 'dbus-daemon' Feb 6 08:34:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 6 08:40:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 6 08:46:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 6 08:58:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 6 09:16:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 6 09:28:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 6 09:40:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 6 09:46:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 6 09:52:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 6 09:58:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 6 10:04:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) Feb 6 10:16:15 worklaptop dbus[1267]: [system] Activating service name='org.freedesktop.PackageKit' (using servicehelper) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c10 Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |jnelson-suse@jamponi.net --- Comment #10 from Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> 2012-02-07 13:56:36 UTC --- We still need to know what talks to packagekit that often... Which desktop are you using? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c11 Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@jamponi.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|jnelson-suse@jamponi.net | --- Comment #11 from Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@jamponi.net> 2012-02-07 14:10:05 UTC --- I'm using KDE. This happened with KDE 4.7 and, now, 4.8. apper *is* installed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c12 Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO InfoProvider| |jnelson-suse@jamponi.net --- Comment #12 from Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> 2012-02-07 14:43:25 UTC --- Does it still happen if you kill the apper-related processes? Or if you remove apper? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c13 --- Comment #13 from Segundo Luis Martín Díaz Sotomayor <smartinds@gmail.com> 2012-02-07 16:45:16 UTC --- Well I don't know if this bug still happen because I UNINSTALL packagekit. yeah... is a solution very drastic. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c14 Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@jamponi.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|jnelson-suse@jamponi.net | --- Comment #14 from Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@jamponi.net> 2012-02-07 16:52:11 UTC --- I just removed apper. I'll let you know if packagekit keeps spamming the system. Every 15 minutes is better than every 20 seconds, but it's still a far cry from "a few times a day". -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c15 --- Comment #15 from Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse@jamponi.net> 2012-02-07 20:13:12 UTC --- After removing apper, I checked: no packagekit noise in over 5 hours. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c16 Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Component|Other |KDE4 Workspace AssignedTo|bnc-team-gnome@forge.provo. |kde-maintainers@suse.de |novell.com | Summary|packagekit spamming logs |apper waking up packagekit |every 20 seconds. |way too often --- Comment #16 from Vincent Untz <vuntz@suse.com> 2012-02-07 21:49:15 UTC --- Thanks, moving to KDE. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c17 Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |wstephenson@suse.com --- Comment #17 from Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.com> 2012-08-07 11:24:04 UTC --- Not reproduceable in 12.2. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c18 Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@gmx.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED CC| |sven.burmeister@gmx.net Resolution| |FIXED --- Comment #18 from Sven Burmeister <sven.burmeister@gmx.net> 2012-09-15 14:23:48 UTC --- Closing as fixed in 12.2. Please re-open if you can re-produce it with 12.2. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c19 Roman Evstifeev <someuniquename@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |someuniquename@gmail.com --- Comment #19 from Roman Evstifeev <someuniquename@gmail.com> 2013-01-18 04:38:54 UTC --- Encountered this bug again on openSUSE 12.2 (with KDE 4.9.4 repo) This bug gone away when i disabled "Apper Monitor" KDE service in System Settings -> Startup and shutdown -> Service manager (relogin needed after this) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=725570#c20 --- Comment #20 from Roman Evstifeev <someuniquename@gmail.com> 2013-01-18 04:41:09 UTC --- There is a configuration option in Apper itself to never check for updates, but it does not prevent this messages-spam. Only disablig the KDE service helps. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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