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modnoob

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Registered: 2017-10-17

Posts: 29

Discover offline update not working and permanent restart notification

I heart from KDEs new feature "offline updates" and wanted to give it a try. It should install updates automatically while rebooting.
But as i restarted after getting a restart notification nothing was installed. But arch rebooted twice so i think it tried to do its updating but it doesn't (i had to do manual which worked with discover after disabling offline updated).
Now i get this restart notification every time i log in.
Even after i updated in a normal way.
Does anyone tried that feature? Any ideas to solve the problem?

Last edited by modnoob (2021-07-01 09:14:14)

modnoob

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Registered: 2017-10-17

Posts: 29

Re: Discover offline update not working and permanent restart notification

I found a KDE bug report and I am not sure if the problem is in arch or KDE:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438448

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,285

Re: Discover offline update not working and permanent restart notification

Discover uses packagekit and the relation between pacman & packagekit is ... not ideal.

Check https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … #Graphical .

Is your user a member of the wheel group and did you activate that group in sudoers ?

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Try clean chroot manager by graysky

arojas

Developer

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,237

Re: Discover offline update not working and permanent restart notification

I don't think this is supposed to work on Arch. I have disabled the feature form the discover package to prevent PK causing unexpected damage.

kearneyAnidea

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Registered: 2021-06-04

Posts: 3

Re: Discover offline update not working and permanent restart notification

I have the same problem - The Discover Notifier always tells me that "Restart to apply installed updates" since I updated the system last month.  And I did the restart. It still tells me the same thing - Restart. I have tried restart or shudown. It still have the same problem until today. By the way, I have updated the system many times since the problem occurred. What I can do noe is to ignore it..

Linux arch 5.10.49-1-lts #1 SMP Sun, 11 Jul 2021 12:21:22 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.84.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Hardware:  lenove  XiaoXin Pro 13 r5 4600u 2020

POINTS

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Registered: 2013-11-29

Posts: 29

Re: Discover offline update not working and permanent restart notification

I found a KDE bug report and I am not sure if the problem is in arch or KDE:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438448

I followed the advice on the bug ticket and removing /var/lib/PackageKit/offline-update-action fixed it.

I have not had this problem since I removed the file so I think this was fixed in a newer version of Discover (or something else). So, if anyone else is having the issue, try removing /var/lib/PackageKit/offline-update-action.