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gardotd426

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Registered: 2019-10-19

Posts: 48

Discover Does Not Work, Even With packagekit-qt5 and flatpak Installed

So I've seen other posts from the past where people were getting PackageKit and other errors when trying to run Discover, and the solution was to install packagekit-qt5.

Well, I've had packagekit-qt5 installed since I first installed Discover months ago, and even tried reinstalling both, and it still definitely does not work.

I get errors such as:

Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)

And under "Installed" I only see Plasma addons I've installed through the KDE System Settings. So a whole bunch of mess is going on.

System is fully updated, things like pamac, yay, etc. work fine, installing Plasma Add-ons through the KDE System Settings (like the "Get New Themes" button) works fine, etc. packagekit-qt5 is installed, all optdepends are installed.

discover 5.20.4-1
packagekit-qt5 1.0.2-1

TheFurryWeeb

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Registered: 2020-08-06

Posts: 68

Re: Discover Does Not Work, Even With packagekit-qt5 and flatpak Installed

Did you install the fwupd package, as well?

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gardotd426

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Registered: 2019-10-19

Posts: 48

Re: Discover Does Not Work, Even With packagekit-qt5 and flatpak Installed

Did you install the fwupd package, as well?

Yeah, it was installed long before discover ever was. All optdepends are installed.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Discover Does Not Work, Even With packagekit-qt5 and flatpak Installed

Failed to activate service 'org.freedesktop.PackageKit': timed out (service_start_timeout=25000ms)

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# journalctl -b

output please (run as root) .

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2020-12-28 13:33:07)

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goodger

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Registered: 2021-02-16

Posts: 1

Re: Discover Does Not Work, Even With packagekit-qt5 and flatpak Installed

I've resolved this today on my own system. It appears I had to remove the HookDir directive in /etc/pacman.conf. I hope this helps...