Bug#711500: gnome-settings-daemon: "Could not get updates. Failed to process request. Operation was cancelled"

[Simon McVittie]

On 07/06/13 10:48, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> Depending on your version of Aptd, this might very well be the case
> that Aptd is blocking something. Newer versions of APtd will AFAIK
> jump out of the way as soon as PackageKit is used.

This is on a laptop with current wheezy versions of everything.

> software-properties-gtk depending on Aptd is ugly, if the maintainers
> allow it, I will commit a patch to remove that dependency, because it
> isn't required for anything critical anyway.

software-center still depends on aptdaemon, so this would still require
the workaround of "GNOME wheezy users should remove software-center". Is
that intended? Is software-center/wheezy considered to be obsolete?

(I already removed update-manager-gnome during the upgrade.)

> Are you maybe performing actions on the Apt database or on PK
> manually, while GSD checks for updates?

This happens during "normal use" (web browsing, email) - no manual apt
operations.

    S