kpackagekit - waiting for service to start

[ds_shellback]

Hi,

I've successfully updated to 9.04 - I then installed kpackagekit.

packagekit takes an extraordinary time to sort itself out but does work eventually, but kpackagekit sits there with unknown state and if you click the refresh button a message pops up "waiting for service to start". It doesn't get any further.

Anybody any ideas what I've missed? Or should I go back to adept?

[rmallis]

Re: kpackagekit - waiting for service to start

Don't know what the problem with kpackagekit is, but I am staying with synaptic as my gui package manager. Adept is being discontinued and I don't think kpackagekit is mature at this stage.

[lightheat]

Re: kpackagekit - waiting for service to start

I'm having the exact same issue with this program. If it's not "waiting for service to start," it's "waiting for other tasks" that just simply aren't running.

Now, I'm a noob at most of this stuff, but I tried uninstalling the program by doing

sudo apt-get remove kpackagekit

but all I get is

jesse@littlelightheat:~$ sudo apt-get remove kpackagekit
Reading package lists... Done
Segmentation faulty tree... 0%

In addition, trying to install adept or synaptic gives the same two-line result.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Jess

[dibl]

Re: kpackagekit - waiting for service to start

Try (in the Konsole)

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Post any errors. If there are not errors, then try

sudo apt-get update

and then

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

to bring your packages up to current configuration.

Then do

sudo apt-get install synaptic

If you're still having issues, post your /etc/apt/sources.list file so we can see whether you have all the standard repositories enabled.

[GreyGeek]

Re: kpackagekit - waiting for service to start

Hi,

I've successfully updated to 9.04 - I then installed kpackagekit.

packagekit takes an extraordinary time to sort itself out but does work eventually, but kpackagekit sits there with unknown state and if you click the refresh button a message pops up "waiting for service to start". It doesn't get any further.

Anybody any ideas what I've missed? Or should I go back to adept?

KPackageKit doesn't give me any problems, but I prefer Synaptic because it is faster and easier to use. It is laid out more logically and it keeps a better history of what I've installed or removed, and when I did it. KPackageKit gets called when I click on the update gear notifier, and I use it to do those updates, but other than that it never sees my desktop.