[lug] Fwd: Fedora 13 package update issue [SOLVED]

[Davide Del Vento]

FYI,
;Dav

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On 07/30/2010 03:01 PM Greg Woods wrote:
> I pass on this message since obviously not everyone who has Fedora 13
> installed will be on the announcements or users list. As far as I can
> tell, a buggy version of the GUI package manager was released that
> prevents notifications of pending updates, or actual updates, from
> working. As as far as I can tell:
>
> 1) This affects only Fedora 13
> 2) If you normally use the yum command line tool to do updates, you
> would not be affected.
> 3) This message contains a workaround for affected users.
> 4) I do not know if KDE uses the same GUI package manager or whether
> this only affects GNOME users.
>
> I just verified that my F13 laptop is still updating just fine from the
> command line.
>
> --Greg
>
>
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>> From: Jared K. Smith <jsmith at fedoraproject.org>
>> Reply-to: users at lists.fedoraproject.org
>> To: Announcements List <announce at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>> Subject: Package update notifications fixed
>> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:56:24 -0400
>>
>> Recent updates to Fedora introduced two unexpected bugs, either of
>> which results in users no longer seeing notifications of or being able
>> to apply new updates.
>>
>> Updates to the relevant packages have been shipped to fix these
>> issues, but users will not receive notifications for them unless they
>> first apply the pending fixed updates using the "yum" tool.  (Please
>> note that these issues should only affect Fedora 13.  Fedora 12 does
>> not appear to be affected.)  Packages fixing these issues were pushed
>> to the Fedora software repositories around July 22, 2010. Users who
>> have done a manual "yum update" since that push may have already
>> received these fixes.
>>
>> To fix the issue, please:
>>
>>  1. Open a Terminal (Applications > System Tools > Terminal)
>>
>>  2. Type either of the following commands and enter the password for
>> the root user when prompted.
>>  a. To choose to apply all pending updates now:
>>   su -c "yum -y --skip-broken update"
>>  b. To choose to apply updates fixing only the specific issues mentioned above:
>>   su -c "yum -y --skip-broken update gnome-packagekit selinux-policy"
>>
>>  3. Log out and and then log back in, or reboot your computer.  Note
>> that logout/login will complete the fix for the notification issue.
>> However, if you applied all updates in the previous step, you may need
>> to reboot for other updates that require it.
>>
>> We apologize for the inconvenience, and we are working on further
>> improvements to our testing and quality assurance processes to avoid
>> this and similar problems in the future.
>>
>> If you have any further questions or require additional assistance,
>> please refer to
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicating_and_getting_help for ways
>> to get additional help from the Fedora community.
>>
>> --
>> Jared Smith
>> Fedora Project Leader