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dutzsg

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Registered: 2020-11-23

Posts: 3

Problem with Discover (Software Center) KDE Plasma Arch

I am having problems with the Discover program, it doesn't load the featured tab neither the installed tab, I tried to look for an answer but it didn't help, the problem that usually people have is that they don't have packagekit-qt5 installed, I also have these other two dependencies: flatpak and fwupd. I was wondering if you could help me, thanks!

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: Problem with Discover (Software Center) KDE Plasma Arch

To see if it's a problem with packagekit, you could install and run pcurses (TUI packagekit client). If that shows you packages, then it's a problem with Discover.

YuvarajVelmurugan

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Registered: 2020-11-23

Posts: 15

Re: Problem with Discover (Software Center) KDE Plasma Arch

I am too facing same issue. I did below steps to resolve few of the issues:

step 1) open the terminal from your desktop

step 2) switch to root user by running the command

su - root

on terminal and then provide the password you assigned during installation.

step 3) run command

systemctl disable sddm

on terminal

step 4) run command

reboot

on terminal

When the system reboots it will automatically boot into  tty command mode.

step 1 ) run command

root

to login as root user

step 2) provide password for the root

step 3) run the command

pacman -S packagekit-qt5

step 4) run the command

systemctl enable sddm

step 5) run the command

reboot

The system will reboot now. Wait for the system to boot to login screen. Now login to your desktop and check the discover application.

I am able to view all tabs loaded. But only unable to search for apps. Will post if i find anything further.

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Thanks,
Yuvaraj Velmurugan

dutzsg

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Registered: 2020-11-23

Posts: 3

Re: Problem with Discover (Software Center) KDE Plasma Arch

To see if it's a problem with packagekit, you could install and run pcurses (TUI packagekit client). If that shows you packages, then it's a problem with Discover.

I did it and it returned all of my installed packages, I think you're right.

dutzsg

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Registered: 2020-11-23

Posts: 3

Re: Problem with Discover (Software Center) KDE Plasma Arch

I am too facing same issue. I did below steps to resolve few of the issues:

step 1) open the terminal from your desktop

step 2) switch to root user by running the command

su - root

on terminal and then provide the password you assigned during installation.

step 3) run command

systemctl disable sddm

on terminal

step 4) run command

reboot

on terminal

When the system reboots it will automatically boot into  tty command mode.

step 1 ) run command

root

to login as root user

step 2) provide password for the root

step 3) run the command

pacman -S packagekit-qt5

step 4) run the command

systemctl enable sddm

step 5) run the command

reboot

The system will reboot now. Wait for the system to boot to login screen. Now login to your desktop and check the discover application.

I am able to view all tabs loaded. But only unable to search for apps. Will post if i find anything further.

I tried to do that but somehow after installing  packagekit-qt5 and rebooting networkmanager stoped working and now i can't use wifi or ethernet, so here I am on a raspberry pi, wich is pretty funny but also sad, this is the output of

systemctl status NetworkManager.service

[uriel@archPC ~]$ sudo systemctl start NetworkManager
[sudo] password for uriel: 
Job for NetworkManager.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status NetworkManager.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
[uriel@archPC ~]$ systemctl status NetworkManager.service
* NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service.d
             `-NetworkManager-ovs.conf
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2020-11-23 10:11:32 MST; 15s ago
       Docs: man:NetworkManager(8)
    Process: 1233 ExecStart=/usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
   Main PID: 1233 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Nov 23 10:11:32 archPC systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Scheduled restart job, restart counter is at 5.
Nov 23 10:11:32 archPC systemd[1]: Stopped Network Manager.
Nov 23 10:11:32 archPC systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Nov 23 10:11:32 archPC systemd[1]: NetworkManager.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Nov 23 10:11:32 archPC systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Manager. 

I hope you can help me, thanks!

YuvarajVelmurugan

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Registered: 2020-11-23

Posts: 15

Re: Problem with Discover (Software Center) KDE Plasma Arch

could you run below command and copy paste the output

journalctl -xe

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Thanks,
Yuvaraj Velmurugan