[SOLVED] Update Notifier not working

[pnbalaji]

Hi,

I have been using Salix for couple of years and I have only had minor issues.

Now for the past couple of days, I am not able to update my Salix OS. The update notifier shows the icon in System tray and when I click on it, I get the notification box with the message "Proceed with Updating" with a Yes or No confirmation buttons. However, when I click on Yes, nothing happens. gslapt is supposed to launch and update the system and it is not happening.

I am able to manually launch gslapt and click on "Mark all Upgrades" to manually upgrade my packages.

Can someone help?

Thanks,
Balaji.

[mimosa]

Open a terminal and try:

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sudo spi -u

Does it update the package info, or hang? Which repository mirror are you using? You should see this in the output, for example, mine looks like this:

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Retrieving package data [http://mirrors.nix.org.ua/linux/salixos/x86_64/slackware-14.2/]

meaning I am using http://mirrors.nix.org.ua

You can see the health of the mirrors here:
https://www.salixos.org/mirmon.html

[pnbalaji]

No, it does not update the package lists. As soon as I click on the "Yes" button on the confirmation dialog, the dialog disappears and then nothing happens.

Below is the output of sudo spi -u.

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bash-4.3$ sudo spi -u
Password: 
Updating package cache...
Retrieving package data [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/]...Cached
Retrieving patch list [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/]...Cached
Retrieving checksum list [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/]...Cached
Retrieving checksum signature [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/]...Cached
Verifying checksum signature [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/]...Verified
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/]...Cached
Reading Package Lists...Done
Retrieving package data [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/extra/]...Cached
Retrieving patch list [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/extra/]...Done
Retrieving checksum list [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/extra/]...Cached
Retrieving checksum signature [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/extra/]...Cached
Verifying checksum signature [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/extra/]...Verified
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/slackware-14.2/extra/]...Done
Reading Package Lists...Done
Retrieving package data [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/14.2/]...Cached
Retrieving patch list [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/14.2/]...Done
Retrieving checksum list [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/14.2/]...Cached
Retrieving checksum signature [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/14.2/]...Cached
Verifying checksum signature [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/14.2/]...Verified
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/14.2/]...Cached
Reading Package Lists...Done
Retrieving package data [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/extra-14.2/]...Cached
Retrieving patch list [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/extra-14.2/]...Done
Retrieving checksum list [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/extra-14.2/]...Cached
Retrieving checksum signature [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/extra-14.2/]...Cached
Verifying checksum signature [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/extra-14.2/]...Verified
Retrieving ChangeLog.txt [http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/x86_64/extra-14.2/]...Cached
Reading Package Lists...Done

Updating SlackBuild cache...
Fetching slackbuild list from http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/slkbuild/14.2/...Cached
Fetching slackbuild list from http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/sbo/14.2/...Done
bash-4.3$ 

I am using http://mirrors.xmission.com/salix/sbo/14.2 repo.

Thanks,
Balaji.

[mimosa]

Now try

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sudo spi -U

and post the output.

[pnbalaji]

Here is the output.

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bash-4.3$ sudo spi -U
Password: 
Reading Package Lists...Done
The following packages have been EXCLUDED:
  glibc glibc-i18n glibc-profile glibc-solibs glibc-zoneinfo kernel-firmware 
  kernel-headers kernel-huge kernel-modules kernel-source 
0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove, 10 not upgraded.

Done
bash-4.3$ 

Thanks,
Balaji.

[mimosa]

There is nothing to update. Sometimes, the Notifier takes a while to realize this. Is it still telling you you need to update some packages?

[pnbalaji]

It could be because of the fact that I manually ran gslapt to upgrade the packages. When the update notifier notifies me of next update, I will run the 'sudo spi -U' command and post the output.

Thanks,
Balaji.

[mimosa]

No, don't do that - try updating normally and see if that works, as it should.

The reason I asked you to do so was to confirm my hunch that in fact, there were no new updates.

[pnbalaji]

I tried updating when the update notifier notified me in the system tray. However, once I clicked the Yes button on the confirmation box "Proceed with updating", nothing happens.

I have uploaded a youtube video to show this. The URL of the video is below.

https://youtu.be/qm3yIrJ_O_I

Thanks,
Balaji.

[mimosa]

What happens if you then do it manually (using spi as above)? Are any packages installed?

Can you remember when you started seeing this behaviour, and anything you did at the time (just beforehand) to change anything?