Wow! That is really awesome to hear. 

I tried out Micro OS Desktop as an experiment, but it has ruined me. Having a large mutable root where I will slip up an install more an more stuff feels dirty to me now. But there is still a lot to do, nice to see progress!

I will try out all the new changes and see if it fixes the issue. Otherwise maybe it is time for a nuke and pave to get the new stuff cleanly. 

/Emil

Den ons 24 mars 2021 21:55Syds Bearda <opensuse@syds.eu> skrev:
Hi,


On Wed, Mar 24, 2021, at 21:18, Emil Johansson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I do not open up Gnome Software super often but for a while now it has
> been stuck at "Software catalog is being downloaded" every time open it.
>
> As I rarely open it I cannot give a good estimate on when this started
> to happen but it happens every time. The flatpak cli works just fine.
>
> Removing the cache in .cache/gnome-software and starting from the cli
> with --verbose this is where it hangs:
>
> 19:20:36:0325 Gs  running search on plugin=flatpak with dedupe-flags=24
> with [...]
> 19:20:36:0325 Gs  Disconnecting cancellable 0x56268dbe51e0
> 19:20:36:0326 Gs  ****** GetResultMetas
>
> I ran it again today and it does not look exactly the same but running
> search on plugin=flatpak [...] is at the bottom of the output again.
>
> Searching the webs this seems to have been an issue in the past, those
> times it looks like it was related to things like pakagekit and fwupd.
>
> systemctl status packagekit tells me that packagekit have failed with
> this error that says it is not an error. The packagekit service failed
> so I am leaning towards not trusting the part that says it is not an error.
>
> History database cannot be created: SQLite error on ":memory:": Failed
> to open backup database: "/usr/lib/sysimage/dnf/history.sqlite": not an
> error
>
> I followed the excellent guide by dariofaggioli to set up gnome
> software
> and it has worked well until recently.
> (https://dariofaggioli.wordpress.com/2020/10/16/opensuse-microos-as-your-desktop-install/)
>

Today a massive release for MicroOS (Gnome desktop) was accepted into Factory. Once this has gone through the openQA testing it will be released (hopefully within the next few days) as a new snapshot.

The following things have been fixed :
- packegekit/ transactional-update backends have been changed from zypper to dnf, making it possible for Gnome Software to install updates
- necessary gsettings options from Dario's manual are included by default.
- gnome night light works, because of the addition of the package gnome-color-manager
- Flathub is installed on first boot, together with a few flatpaks (Firefox, gnome calculator and gedit)
- SELinux enabled by default (instead of AppArmor)
- btrfs with CoW for /home

/Syds

> /Emil
>
> PS: on snapshot 20210321
>