[Novalug] how to stop packagekitd ??

[Bryan J Smith]

There are several, unrelated software packages here.

One, Firefox updates aren't related to PackageKit. On
Linux systems, you should _never_ be prompted to
update Firefox by Firefox. As far as plug-ins, you likely
can_not_ install them as you are not root (add-ons are
a different story). Linux works very differently, and
is more secure than Windows.

Two, PackageKit is designed as GUI Update for less savvy
users, and it will prompt and download in the background.
If you hit my blog (I'm on my BlackBerry right now or I'd
send you the direct link -- http://bjs-redhat.livejournal.com),
I have an article on 2-ways to disable PackageKit notifications
just for the current user (IIRC).

Three, Smolt is an optional hardware profiling tool that
Fedora includes that allows the project, after opt-in, to
gather very accurate statistics on actual adoption.  You
don't need it if you don't want it.

--  
Bryan J Smith - mailto:b.j.smith at ieee.org  
http://www.linkedin.com/in/bjsmith
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile  
    

-----Original Message-----
From: Walt Smith <waltechmail at yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:16:35 
To: <novalug at calypso.tux.org>
Subject: [Novalug] how to stop packagekitd ??


List,

A few days ago, I started a software update from Firefox.
( checking for packages ) when a web page made FF want some plugin.
I did click to start the plugin "search".
F12, gnome.

It keeps restarting, doing continuous D/L over dialup.

Closing FF and restarting doesn't help.
Closing the X login account and doing X relogin doesn't help.
I could not find a real "Stop" in the "software update" gui.

It has D/L more than 11 Megbytes in a file. Each time it starts
it starts the D/L file from scratch. ( filename isn't relevent, 
I don't believe ).  I think it's a sqlite type .gz file.

**  In short,  I can't keep it stopped.

crond is enabled in services.
Below is too much info... !!!<G>

PS what the H-ll is a "smolt" ???

What direction should I NOT look, and where SHOULD I look ???

here's a sample of attempt:

==================
ps ax [snip most of crap]
17108 ?        S      1:17 /usr/libexec/gam_server
18934 ?        Ss     0:00 /sbin/ppp-watch tenexorg 
18936 ttyS0    Ss+    0:00 pppd lock modem crtscts asyncmap 00000000 defaultroute usepeerdns user waltech at tenex.org remotenam
19022 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/sbin/packagekitd
19024 ?        S      0:01 /usr/bin/python /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py refresh-cache yes
19027 pts/0    R+     0:00 ps ax
[root at waltech3 anacron]# kill 19022
[root at waltech3 anacron]# kill 19024

[root at waltech3 cron]# pwd
/var/spool/cron
[root at waltech3 cron]# ls -al
total 8
drwx------.  2 root root 4096 2009-11-05 11:13 .
drwxr-xr-x. 12 root root 4096 2009-11-09 14:20 ..

[root at waltech3 var]# cd /etc
[root at waltech3 etc]# less anacrontab
# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron

# See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details.

SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
MAILTO=root
# the maximal random delay added to the base delay of the jobs
RANDOM_DELAY=45
# the jobs will be started during the following hours only
START_HOURS_RANGE=3-22

#period in days   delay in minutes   job-identifier   command
1       5       cron.daily              nice run-parts /etc/cron.daily
7       25      cron.weekly             nice run-parts /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly 45     cron.monthly            nice run-parts /etc/cron.monthly


[root at waltech3 etc]# ls cron*
cron.deny  crontab

cron.d:
0hourly  smolt

cron.daily:
cups  logrotate  makewhatis.cron  mlocate.cron  prelink  readahead.cron  tmpwatch

cron.hourly:
0anacron

cron.monthly:
readahead-monthly.cron

cron.weekly:
99-raid-check



Walt...................





      
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