kpackagekit not working

[Rex Dieter]

LPM wrote:


> With F12, I added kpackagekit to the systems after the upgrade, but
> kpackagekit does not ever report any available updates.  I ran the gui and
> checked that everything was set properly.  It always gives error messages
> about "KPackageKit closed unexpectedly", and "KDE Daemon closed
> unexpectedly".  Both are Segmentation fault problems.
> Is this a known problem.  I can find a couple of bugs in BZ that look like
> they may be related

Long-story-short, PackageKit-0.5.5 (and newer) updates broke kpackagekit.  
kpk's developer is aware of the issue, but there's currently no eta on a 
fix.  (frustrating, yes).

FYI, primarily tracking the issue here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=551500

-- Rex

-- Rex