hello
i’ve two manjaro gnome installations and i’ve noticed that when i often check for updates it says there are no new updates but then a moment after that it is telling me that there are new updates available.
as i said. i have two computers with the same issue. why is that happening?
thank you and love from israel
How is that an issue?
It would perhaps be an issue if you did the updates and then there would still and again be updates pending.
Did you do the available updates?
I’m guessing that checking the notifier triggers a check for updates? This seems to happen in Plasma as well.
The notifier check interval should be configurable. I don’t use Gnome though, nor know which notifier you are using.
My old Manjaro installation used to do exactly the same thing. Rebuilding the Pamac index seemed to fix it initially but then it started up again after a while.
Never found a good solution for it, sadly.
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It first said there were no updates, then it actually checked for updates and found some.
Or, maybe the updates just got pushed to your mirror server.
Either way, this is not that difficult to understand.
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what i mean is, why to say that there are no updates if there are actually things to update? nevermind
atleast the system is working
You probably have your notifier set to once er day? In Plasma at least, and with the Octopi Notifier (which I use) you can choose what time these checks are made, or set an interval in minutes.
It wouldn’t know there are updates until it checks for updates. You can change how often it checks for updates in the settings.
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That’s the explanation. You checked manually and there were none. The Database updated, and there were.
It’s like the old joke,
Patient to Doctor: Doctor when I do this it hurts
Doctor to Patient: Then don’t do that
The Database will be updated, on whatever schedule updates are checked.
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On Manjaro Gnome, pamac-gtk provides pamac tray to check for updates on a daily basis by default, but Updates check frequency can be changed in Pamac GUI preferences
“Nirvana protocol” would be needed only if pamac could not find updates
I’m so happy 'cause today I found my friends, they’re in my head
I’m so ugly, that’s okay, 'cause so are you, we broke our mirrors
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I’m guessing that you aren’t able to express this clearly. The transition from ‘no updates’ to ‘updates’ will be instantaneous, and I don’t understand the ‘issue’.
If you want to be sure, then you check in terminal.
checkupdates
If anything’s reported then I’d just follow up with:
pamac update && flatpak upgrade
There is sometimes a slight clash between pamac telling you that it can’t lock the database, but then a minute later you’ll get a notification in the tray that there are updates - it was occurring in the background.
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i thought i was clear but maybe i wasn’t…
anyway… eventually it is allowing me to update the system… so it is not a big problem for me…
i can’t read a lot of text easily so maybe when i’ve less on my head i will return to read more of what you responded.