Hi!
Please do always CC this bug report, so we have a copy of your
messages in the BTS.
You see a black window? If this is Apper, you should see a
notification message. Do you maybe have GNOME-PackageKit installed?
(in an old version)
Can you maybe make a screenshot of this message?
Apper itself is not supposed to be run as root, so please don't do
that ;-) Apper will request required provileges using PolKit dialogs.
In a KDE session, Apper handles looking for updates, installing new
packages (and applications) and manages software sources. It also
notifies you about package management state changes. If you have other
tools, you might use them and don't need Apper - a better solution
would be finding out what is wrong with Apper/your system config.
The warning you described below is probably because you started Apper
as root - DBus has to work properly, otherwise KDE would not work.
Can you please execute
$ pkcon refresh
(you might need to have packagekit-tools installed)
Do you see any error when running that command?
Regards,
Matthias
2012/11/21 Edward C. Jones <[email protected]>:
> On 11/21/2012 05:04 AM, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>> Where do you see this error message? In the system tray? This might be
>> a message emitted by Apper.
>> Why can the sources not be fetched? Is there a problem with the
>> server, or aren't you connected to the internet? Usually, PK checks
>> for a working network connection before refreshing sources.
>> If you want to disable the automatic update checks, you can simply do
>> that in Apper's settings.
>> Cheers,
>> Matthias
>
>
> The message appears in a black window at the lower right hand corner of my
> monitor. I am always connected to the internet.
>
> My problem may be caused as follows. I replaced the ethernet board and
> cable that connects my computer to a cable modem and thus to the internet.
> After installing the new board, linux started to use eth2 (Maybe linux
> thinks the old board is still there). Whenever I reboot I have to type
> "dhclient eth2" (as root) to connect to the internet. Perhaps apper is
> looking for eth0 or eth1.
>
> I update my system using synaptic. Do I need to have apper?
>
> When I try to run apper (as root) I get the following errors:
>
> ROOT> apper
> QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication.
> Application may misbehave.
> unnamed app(21430): KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session
> server: "Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote
> application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked
> the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken."
>
> unnamed app(21429): KUniqueApplication: Pipe closed unexpectedly.
>
>
>> 2012/11/21 Edward C. Jones<[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> Package: packagekit
>>> Version: 0.7.6-1
>>>
>>> I use up-to-date Debian testing (wheezy), amd64 port, with KDE.
>>>
>>> For the last six weeks or so I have been getting the following error
>>> message
>>> several times a day:
>>>
>>> cannot fetch install sources
>>> E: Error http:ftp.us.debian.org
>>> wheezy InRelease
>>> E: Error http://security.debian.org
>>> wheezy/Updates InRelease
>>>
>>> I searched Google for "cannot fetch install sources". This phrase is
>>> found
>>> only in the file gpk-enum.c. This file is related to the package
>>> "gnome-packagekit" which is NOT installed on my system. My system does
>>> have
>>> "apper", "packagekit", "python-packagekit", "packagekit-tools", and some
>>> related packages.
>>>
>>>
>>> uname -a gives:
>>> Linux c-76-111-67-198 3.2.0-3-amd64 #1 SMP Mon Jul 23 02:45:17 UTC 2012
>>> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> reportbug -q --template -T none -s none -S normal -b --list-cc none -q
>>> packagekit gives:
>>>
>>> -- System Information:
>>> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>>> APT prefers testing
>>> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
>>> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>>>
>>> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
>>> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
>>> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>>>
>>> Versions of packages packagekit depends on:
>>> ii libc6 2.13-35
>>> ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
>>> ii libglib2.0-bin 2.33.12+really2.32.4-3
>>> ii libpackagekit-glib2-14 0.7.6-1
>>> ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-1
>>> ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1
>>> ii packagekit-backend-aptcc 0.7.6-1
>>>
>>> Versions of packages packagekit recommends:
>>> ii packagekit-tools 0.7.6-1
>>>
>>> Versions of packages packagekit suggests:
>>> pn packagekit-backend-smart<none>
>>>
>
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