I killed PackageKit during an install, now software sources are gone

[hammerwalk]

Good evening,

Recently I switched over to Fedora 9 from Mandriva 2008 and I seem to have gotten my self into a mess that I cant figure out.

I was trying to install a package that had become unresponsive during the install after a good 30min, so I killed the process.

Now, when I log in I get a "Failed to find update packages" error, and if I try to open Add/Remove and perform a search I get this...

"The group could not be queried" Running the transaction failed. Under More details I get this "A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction" member "SearchGroup" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.PackageKit") "

Also, if I go the Software Sources, it is empty with no option to point to the software sources.

Does any one have a clue of what I did? I did some searching on the forum, but the solutions that some had that worked for most did not work for me. Perhaps this is different from the TID problem that I had found that had similar error messages.

If any one knows, can you kindly tell me what I did exactly by killing the install process to make PackageKit useless.

Thanks!

[marcrblevins]

You probably got the PID file stuck in somewhere in /var/run.

Reboot your rig. If that doesn't work then do a yum clean all.

[hammerwalk]

I had rebooted and then ran..

# yum clean all
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Cleaning up Everything


Once I opened PackageKit I got the same error....

Any other ideas?

[NoEffex]

This is a VERY common problem.

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showth...67#post1126867

That's what fixed it for me.

[hammerwalk]

just rebooted with no other luck.

I also noticed that I am getting "Couldnt get update list" errors after i login, with the same detailed error.

[devjonfos]

Did you see my post?

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpo...&postcount=120

[hammerwalk]

didnt see post prior to my last

it looks like it may have worked. Now when I open PackageKit, it just says "Downloading information, waiting on other tasks" which is further than I was before.

Thanks for the link!

And yes, just verified, it works like I expected!!

[devjonfos]

Woohoo! And we did that all within the last 20 minutes of posting!

[bob]

Since we're trying to consolidate all the posts on this issue into that one thread, I'm closing this one.