Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-28 Thread Mark Haney
On 03/27/2012 02:59 PM, Andy Blanchard wrote: On 27 March 2012 19:54, Mark Haney ma...@abemblem.com Sounds like you've hit the same bug myself and several others have. Is so, it's not PackageKit causing the problem so much as Apper repeatedly calling it - about every five minutes or so seems

WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Mark Haney
Why is it that PackageKit is sitting in the background constantly leaving me pretty much unable to install any software from the command line? Did I configure something to make it do that? And how in the world can I make it stop? -- Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Konstantin Svist
On 03/27/2012 11:34 AM, Mark Haney wrote: Why is it that PackageKit is sitting in the background constantly leaving me pretty much unable to install any software from the command line? Did I configure something to make it do that? And how in the world can I make it stop? yum remove

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Mark Haney ma...@abemblem.com wrote: Why is it that PackageKit is sitting in the background constantly leaving me pretty much unable to install any software from the command line?  Did I configure something to make it do that?  And how in the world can I make it

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Mark Haney
On 03/27/2012 02:45 PM, Konstantin Svist wrote: On 03/27/2012 11:34 AM, Mark Haney wrote: Why is it that PackageKit is sitting in the background constantly leaving me pretty much unable to install any software from the command line? Did I configure something to make it do that? And how in the

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Andy Blanchard
On 27 March 2012 19:54, Mark Haney ma...@abemblem.com wrote: I got it. For some insane reason PK runs in the background a lot (all the time?) if you have it set to check for updates daily. Don't know about y'all, but that seems a bit heavy handed. Sounds like you've hit the same bug

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Richard Shaw
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Mark Haney ma...@abemblem.com wrote: I got it.  For some insane reason PK runs in the background a lot (all the time?) if you have it set to check for updates daily.  Don't know about y'all, but that seems a bit heavy handed. Hopefully I describe this

Re: WTH is wrong with PackageKit?

2012-03-27 Thread Richard Hughes
On 27 March 2012 20:00, Richard Shaw hobbes1...@gmail.com wrote: I think uninstalling apper and the yum PK plugin would probably be better than ripping out everything PK. Just remove PackageKit-yum-plugin if you don't want PK to check it's caches after each command line action. I agree its a