That's intentional. It's dbus activated on demand and times out when no longer busy with any tasks. Timeout is controlled by /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 10:19 AM Sid Boyce via openSUSE Factory < factory@lists.opensuse.org> wrote:
# systemctl status packagekit * packagekit.service - PackageKit Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/packagekit.service; static) Active: inactive (dead)
Mar 19 14:01:45 tindog systemd[1]: Starting PackageKit Daemon... Mar 19 14:01:45 tindog PackageKit[887435]: daemon start Mar 19 14:01:45 tindog systemd[1]: Started PackageKit Daemon. Mar 19 14:02:05 tindog PackageKit[887435]: daemon quit Mar 19 14:02:05 tindog systemd[1]: packagekit.service: Deactivated successfully. tindog:/usr/src/XXX/linux # systemctl start packagekit tindog:/usr/src/XXX/linux # systemctl status packagekit * packagekit.service - PackageKit Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/packagekit.service; static) Active: active (running) since Wed 2024-03-20 14:15:10 GMT; 2s ago Main PID: 1173179 (Zypp-main) Tasks: 6 (limit: 76752) CPU: 17ms CGroup: /system.slice/packagekit.service `-1173179 /usr/libexec/packagekitd
Mar 20 14:15:10 tindog systemd[1]: Starting PackageKit Daemon... Mar 20 14:15:10 tindog PackageKit[1173179]: daemon start Mar 20 14:15:10 tindog systemd[1]: Started PackageKit Daemon. tindog:/usr/src/XXX/linux # systemctl status packagekit * packagekit.service - PackageKit Daemon Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/packagekit.service; static) Active: inactive (dead)
Mar 19 14:01:45 tindog systemd[1]: Starting PackageKit Daemon... Mar 19 14:01:45 tindog PackageKit[887435]: daemon start Mar 19 14:01:45 tindog systemd[1]: Started PackageKit Daemon. Mar 19 14:02:05 tindog PackageKit[887435]: daemon quit Mar 19 14:02:05 tindog systemd[1]: packagekit.service: Deactivated successfully. Mar 20 14:15:10 tindog systemd[1]: Starting PackageKit Daemon... Mar 20 14:15:10 tindog PackageKit[1173179]: daemon start Mar 20 14:15:10 tindog systemd[1]: Started PackageKit Daemon. Mar 20 14:15:30 tindog PackageKit[1173179]: daemon quit Mar 20 14:15:30 tindog systemd[1]: packagekit.service: Deactivated successfully.
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