Package: packagekit
Version: 1.3.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I wanted to update a package (firefox, but this is irrelevant) using
packagekit.
I used "pkcon update firefox". The command never terminated.
packagekit service log did not show any error messages or timeout.
pkcon update firefox
Resolving [=========================]
Testing changes [=========================]
Finished [ ] (0%)
The following packages have to be updated:
firefox-144.0~build2.amd64 Mozilla Firefox
firefox-l10n-de-144.0~build2.all Mozilla Firefox - Firefox Language Pack
for Deutsch (de) – German
Proceed with changes? [N/y] y
[=========================]
Updating packages [=========================]
Loading cache [=========================]
Running [=========================] ^C
Finished [=========================]
Aborted after minutes. Nothing was updated.
Looking at the running processes I found "apt-listchanges" running:
root 30293 0.0 0.0 2680 1856 pts/4 S+ 17:56 0:00 /bin/sh -c
/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -lt 10
root 30294 1.2 0.2 47600 33384 pts/4 S+ 17:56 0:00
/usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt
So I suspected it being the cause.
I configured apt-listchanges some time ago and it worked fine when using
plain apt. Apparently it is also triggered by packagekit. I would expect
listchanges to be disabled or using a different configuration when apt
is controlled by a non-interactive background process.
"Problematic" config:
cat /etc/apt/listchanges.conf
[apt]
frontend=xterm-browser
confirm=true
email_address=user
save_seen=/var/lib/apt/listchanges
which=changelogs
email_format=text
headers=true
reverse=true
no_network=false
Changed to the following working config:
cat /etc/apt/listchanges.conf
[apt]
frontend=mail
confirm=false
email_address=user
save_seen=/var/lib/apt/listchanges
which=changelogs
email_format=text
headers=true
reverse=true
no_network=false
Thank you.
Ben
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.1
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages packagekit depends on:
ii init-system-helpers 1.69~deb13u1
ii libappstream5 1.0.5-1
ii libapt-pkg7.0 3.0.3
ii libc6 2.41-12
ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19
ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.84.4-3~deb13u1
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.84.4-3~deb13u1
ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.26.2-2
ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.3.1-1
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 126-2
ii libsqlite3-0 3.46.1-7
ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-19
ii libsystemd0 257.8-1~deb13u2
ii polkitd 126-2
Versions of packages packagekit recommends:
ii appstream 1.0.5-1
ii packagekit-tools 1.3.1-1
ii systemd 257.8-1~deb13u2
packagekit suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
