On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:16:34 +0200 Federico Bruni <[email protected]> wrote: > Package: gnome-packagekit > Version: 3.10.1-1 > Followup-For: Bug #702241 > > I can confirm the same problem on Jessie. > gnome-settings-daemon is running. packagekitd was running, as you can see > here: > > $ ps aux | grep packagekit > root 8267 0.0 0.0 316432 6372 ? Sl 10:43 0:00 > /usr/lib/packagekit/packagekitd > > but now it's not running anymore. No idea of the reason. > > Also, you can see in the attached screenshot the default settings for > org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.updates: notify-distro-upgrades is > unchecked. >
I am running Gnome 3.14 in Debian Jessie and I get no desktop notifications about new package updates either. I don't even have org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.updates in my dconf editor. I do have "APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1" set though.

