On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 7:49 AM pmkellly@xxxxxxxxxxxx <pmkellly@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I decided to go ahead to try doing some testing. The runaway mode was > still running when I started testing things. First I did the desktop > browser tests and they passed. Then I did the desktop terminal tests and > they also passed. Then I ran the desktop update graphical tests using > the Software application. The application started fine and I could get > to the Updates screen okay, but when I clicked the Refresh button, after > a few seconds I got a gray colored pop up that said it could not > continue and a long list of errors. The pop up does not support Copy so > I didn't capture the details. I closed the Software application and > tried to reopen it. The window came up but the usual graphics and text > was not present. I restarted the PC to get out of the runaway mode and > then I was able to run the update graphical test to completion and it > passed. > > It seems that this gnome-software runaway mode does more than just use > up cycles. I am discontinuing testing. Please let me know if there is > something more you want me to do / try. I see a lot of these in your journal: Sep 22 10:03:40 f29h.local packagekitd[1104]: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed I see them in mine as well, no idea if they're related to the runaway process. What I'm seeing is packagekit using about 9% CPU when it's downloading metadata (refreshing repo and app info); and using a more than 100% CPU when it's downloading files. So I filed this: g_object_ref spewing in journal bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1631968 It's probably a gtk thing but I've set the component to packagekit since it's the one doing the spewing. Also, you can disable the background downloading of updated packages by packagekit with: $ gsettings set org.gnome.software download-updates false This is a per user setting. You still get metadata refresh, you can still use Gnome Software to install/remove and update applications, it just won't download any packages in the background, and so you also won't get any notifications for updates. You can either use Gnome Software or dnf to manually apply updates. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
