http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=913527 --- Comment #1 from S. B. --- Another experience that justifies this request to get rid of PackageKit: I tried installing a downloaded RPM file with the openSUSE Gnome default "Package Install" utility. After double-clicking, nothing happened for *several minutes*. No window, no progress bar, no notification, no nothing. I'm not sure if it was trying to update the software index files or what, but there is no excuse for a program to give no visual confirmation of what it is doing for many minutes. Then, when it finally made progress, it gave me an utterly unhelpful error dialog: "Failed to install file - A package could not be found that allows the action to complete. More information is available in the detailed report." What report? No link, no hints where to look, is the report coming later in the next dialog window? Will it also appear after 2 minutes? Is it a log file I have to manually dig up? Everything about PackageKit is seriously awful. Please consider removing it completely from openSUSE by default. Thanks. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=913527 Michael Andres changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |CONFIRMED --- Comment #3 from Michael Andres ---

So I tried the YaST2 Software Management tool, and the first thing is does is spew an ugly error that PackageKit is blocking software management. It offers to ask PackageKit to quit, when I tried 5 times, but it usually fails.

To clarify: This bug is assigned to libzypp, which is used by the PK backend as well as by YAST and zypper. It's libzypps current locking policy which causes the PK backend blocking YAST and zypper (and vice versa). This is what will be addressed here. For anything truly PK related, like the above unhelpful PackageKit dialog, please open a separate bug and assign component GNOME. This is where PK is maintained. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=913527 http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=913527#c5 Dominique Leuenberger changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |dimstar@opensuse.org --- Comment #5 from Dominique Leuenberger --- (In reply to Michael Andres from comment #3)

To clarify: This bug is assigned to libzypp, which is used by the PK backend as well as by YAST and zypper. It's libzypps current locking policy which causes the PK backend blocking YAST and zypper (and vice versa). This is what will be addressed here.

Ping - is there any kind of ETA to get libzypp lock the DB in a smarter way? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.