After some recent update (Debian testing x86_64), apper monitor stopped showing an icon for updates in the system tray (notifications are shown though).

System Tray Settings > Extra Items > Software Updater is enabled. Any idea what can be wrong? (apper in Debian testing: 0.9.1-1).

When running plasma-desktop from the terminal and enabling software updater in the system tray I see this message:

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file:///usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids/org.packagekit.updater/contents/ui/main.qml:201: Error: Unable to determine callable overload.  Candidates are:
    status(PackageKit::Transaction::Status)
    status(PackageKit::Transaction::Status,uint)
    status(PackageKit::Transaction::Status,uint,qulonglong)
void PackageModel::finished() QObject(0x0)  QObject(0x0) 
file:///usr/lib/kde4/imports/org/kde/plasma/components/Button.qml:194:5: QML Row: Possible anchor loop detected on fill.
file:///usr/lib/kde4/imports/org/kde/plasma/components/Button.qml:194:5: QML Row: Possible anchor loop detected on fill.
file:///usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids/org.packagekit.updater/contents/ui/main.qml:201: Error: Unable to determine callable overload.  Candidates are:
    status(PackageKit::Transaction::Status)
    status(PackageKit::Transaction::Status,uint)
    status(PackageKit::Transaction::Status,uint,qulonglong)
file:///usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids/org.packagekit.updater/contents/ui/main.qml:200: Error: Unknown method parameter type: PackageKit::Transaction::Role
file:///usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/plasmoids/org.packagekit.updater/contents/ui/Transaction.qml:67: Error: Unable to determine callable overload.  Candidates are:
    status(PackageKit::Transaction::Status)
    status(PackageKit::Transaction::Status,uint)
    status(PackageKit::Transaction::Status,uint,qulonglong)

I filed a bug about it: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339492

Any clues?

shmerl wrote:Any clues?

Yes.
The same problem existed in openSUSE after the update to Apper 0.9.1 and the latest PackageKit-Qt.

But openSUSE's KDE maintainers fixed it and pushed the fix upstream, the commit is here:
https://projects.kde.org/projects/extra ... f20d853dc1

So ask your distribution to include that fix.

Btw, Apper itself (the application) should work fine, show updates and allow you to install them.

Yep same issue here twice now on my Debian based SolydXK. When I boot up I get the top of screen there are updates.
Click on review tray icon shows nada!... Right click tray search for updates again nada says their are none.

If I open terminal and sudo apt-get -s dist-upgrade will show the updade.
In this case Oct. 22nd was wpasupplicant 2.3-1 yesterday there were like 8 updates that wouldn't show in the tray updater.
And had to use the terminal to get them.

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 apt policy apper
apper:
  Installed: 0.9.1-1
  Candidate: 0.9.1-1
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.1-1 0

packagekit:
  Installed: 0.9.5-2
  Candidate: 0.9.5-2
  Version table:
 *** 0.9.5-2 0

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orbmiser wrote:In this case Oct. 22nd was wpasupplicant 2.3-1 yesterday there were like 8 updates that wouldn't show in the tray updater.
And had to use the terminal to get them.

As I wrote already in my previous post, apper (the application) should work just fine.
You can start it by typing "apper" into Konsole, KRunner, or from the K-Menu.

Or remove the Updater plasmoid from your system tray and apper (the application) will be started when you click on "Review" in the update notification.

IIRC, clicking on "Install" in the update notification should work as well to install them.

And I repeat: you should ask your distribution to include the existing fix in their packages to get this working again.
It will be in the next Apper release of course, but I have no idea when this will be.

Thanks for the info and yes my apper app is installed and can launch from menu and works just fine.
Just the tray plasmoid issue and will try and click on install next time instead of review.
Running SolydK based on Debian testing branch so shouldn't be too long for apper update?
Will watch for it and update it manually when see that it is available in the repo's.
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orbmiser wrote:Thanks for the info and yes my apper app is installed and can launch from menu and works just fine.
Just the tray plasmoid issue and will try and click on install next time instead of review.

As I said, you can remove the plasmoid from the system tray as a workaround (right-click on the small up-arrow that shows the hidden icons and choose "System Tray Settings). You will still get the notifications then, but clicking on "Review" will launch the proper apper then.

Running SolydK based on Debian testing branch so shouldn't be too long for apper update?

Well, the question is when there will be a new apper release which contains the fix. I don't know that.
A distribution could add the fix to their package now, like openSUSE did 3 weeks ago (they actually created the fix). But they might not be aware of that, so you should tell them, via a bug report maybe.

Again the link to the fix:
https://projects.kde.org/projects/extra ... f20d853dc1

I'll file a bug to the apper package for Debian maintainers about it.

FYI: apper 0.9.1-2 in Debian includes this fix: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apper