In F23, I just had to kill the process in subject, since it had gone mad.
All I had done before was to type "soft" in GNOME Shell, then enter the names of a few programs to check how they are displayed.
Upon checking Audacious, I noticed the uninstalled plugins. As I want one of the plugins to be installed always, I clicked the checkbox next to it, had to enter root password, and gnome-software started working on the installation. So far so good. However, just a few seconds later a tiny window opened up asking me for confirmation whether I wanted to remove the plugin package. That made no sense to me as I had just asked the program to install that plugin. I ran "rpm -qa --last|head" to verify that it's installed. Then I clicked "Cancel", refusing uninstallation of the plugin package. That made me curious. Perhaps the single click on the checkbox was received as two clicks? I went back to check, but the box was still marked.
Next I tried to reproduce the problem. I clicked the marked checkbox once more to start uninstalling the plugin package. It seemed to work. I verified via "rpm" again. Afterwards, I clicked the checkbox once more to install the plugin again. Then I closed gnome-software.
Just a short time later, when I ran "dnf -y update" in a terminal, another tiny window received focus, asking me again whether I wanted that plugin package to be removed. What a surprise. I no longer was using gnome-software at that time. I refused by clicking "Cancel". It said that something didn't work out. Then I noticed on the Shell's activity overview five of those tiny small windows, all asking me the same thing. No way to close them or cancel them. Either they didn't react, or they claimed something didn't work out. Hence I killed the process to make them go away.
On 21 December 2015 at 15:09, Michael Schwendt mschwendt@gmail.com wrote:
In F23, I just had to kill the process in subject, since it had gone mad.
Sounds like the kind of thing you put in a bugzilla. If you do, the "gnome-software --verbose" logs would be great.
Richard
On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:46:38 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
In F23, I just had to kill the process in subject, since it had gone mad.
Sounds like the kind of thing you put in a bugzilla. If you do, the "gnome-software --verbose" logs would be great.
I will file a bug report once I know some more details. Perhaps I find a good reproducer. The tip about --verbose is helpful.
(org.gnome.Software:26255): Gs-WARNING **: State change on audacious-plugin-fc from installed to available is not OK
(org.gnome.Software:26255): Gs-WARNING **: failed to install audacious-plugin-fc: do not know how to install app in state installed
I will file a bug report once I know some more details. Perhaps I find a good reproducer. The tip about --verbose is helpful.
(org.gnome.Software:26255): Gs-WARNING **: State change on audacious-plugin-fc from installed to available is not OK
(org.gnome.Software:26255): Gs-WARNING **: failed to install audacious-plugin-fc: do not know how to install app in state installed
First almost always reproducible issue I've found is what I had reported a long ago. I cannot find the old ticket. It could be that it got lost in the EOL spam.
1. start gnome-software, look up a program with plugins 2. click checkbox to uninstall a plugin package 3. --wait a bit-- 4. --believe everything is done, checkbox is unchecked, G-S reloads/refreshes its window-- 5. --rpm thinks the package has been removed successfully-- 6. --realize it's a plugin you want to keep-- 7. click checkbox to install the same plugin package again
Package will be installed successfully, but a window appears:
| Are you sure you want to remove PKGNAME? | | PKGNAME will be removed, and you will have to | install it to use it again. | | [Cancel] [Remove]
Choose Cancel.
| Sorry, this did not work | Installation of PKGNAME failed. | | [ Close ]
And "rpm" shows it has been installed successfully. There are variations of steps 1-7. Basically, one can also start with installing a package, then remove it, only to install it once more. In either case, gnome-software gets confused.
I've not managed to reproduce the five windows so far. That had required less mouse-clicks than what I've done above, so I'm done with this for now.
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