Hi,

since quite a few days/weeks my updater does not work anymore. I am on Arch, so plasma is at 5.5. I now do my updated manually with pacman -Suy. However, the updater always tells me that there are no new updates albeight there are.

Any suggestion where I could start to dig? Lockfiles, cache?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=203632

Thanks for the pointer, but there is no solution or hint. Pacman -Suy was sometimes days behind and muon didn't recognize anything. Running the update manually did also not work.

So it is basically broken on my system. It's either a bug or a messed up cache/lock.

muon-updater throws this error:

Transaction error: "[infinality-bundle]: duplicate target" PackageKit::Transaction(0x195fcc0)

I have the repo 'infinality-bundle' installed. Disabled it - same error. Deleted the transaction.db - same error.

Anybody here who nows how the whole update stack works?

Btw. muon-updater --listbackends doesn't do anything. So this flag is not recognized.

Added a custom repo?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=208768
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91698
(and to a certain degree)
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=196940

It seems packagekit operates on its own copy of the pacman config and has a tendency to get out of sync; there're also plenty of bbs posts where packagekit stopped working. I'd frankly not rely on it at all.

Sounds horrible. I have additionally cleaned the pacman cache, but that didn't help. Yes, I have other repos enabled. But the Packagekit process remains totally secret to me. It doesn't react to any changes, neither to complete removal of its cache/lib dirs nor in changes of pacman.conf. Fells like systemd.

But thanks for your help. I'll stick to the good old command line for now.