GUI-based updater for VMs often (incorectly) shows "no updates avaible"

[marmarek]

Reported by joanna on 4 May 2014 21:06 UTC
Steps to reproduce:

1. Click the "update" button in the Qubes Manager for a template VM
2. gpk-update-viewer windows pops up, tries to refresh the list of updates available, but after a few secs reports "no updates"
3. Open now a terminal in the same template VM and run "yum update" -- now we see tons of updates available.

I recall this was reported in the past, couldn't find the ticket quickly though.

Migrated-From: https://wiki.qubes-os.org/ticket/843

[marmarek]

Modified by marmarek on 12 May 2014 09:20 UTC

[marmarek]

Modified by marmarek on 12 May 2014 09:20 UTC

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 12 May 2014 13:00 UTC
This was already fixed before by calling sudo yum clean expire-cache before gpk-update-viewer. But apparently on Fedora 20 sudo cannot be called without a tty, so do not work from qrexec call.

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 12 May 2014 13:00 UTC
This was already fixed before by calling sudo yum clean expire-cache before gpk-update-viewer. But apparently on Fedora 20 sudo cannot be called without a tty, so do not work from qrexec call.

[marmarek]

Modified by marmarek on 12 May 2014 15:18 UTC

[marmarek]

Modified by marmarek on 12 May 2014 15:18 UTC

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 12 May 2014 19:30 UTC
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/qubes-manager.git;a=commit;h=f096f0050a9952aa8edceb49e8bc7f59f91b51b2

[marmarek]

Comment by marmarek on 12 May 2014 19:30 UTC
http://git.qubes-os.org/?p=marmarek/qubes-manager.git;a=commit;h=f096f0050a9952aa8edceb49e8bc7f59f91b51b2