Strange behavior of Discover:
I installed Discover and wanted to avoid Discover from attempting to do system updates. Search on the internet suggested to uninstall Packagekit-Qt6, which I did. Launching Discover after the removal of packagekit-qt6, Discover complains that there’s no internet connectivity.
I uninstalled Discover, removed the Discover folder in ~/.config and re-installed Discover, only to be greeted with the same message.
my inxi (should it be useful)
inxi -Faz
System:
Kernel: 6.11.3-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.11-x86_64
root=UUID=3cdcf7a8-e102-4c5e-aa1e-6e5da6ebec90 rw quiet splash
split_lock_detect=off resume=UUID=fff61947-f8bb-4176-9135-24f4c6a35e70
udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.0 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.7.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: VivoBook_ASUSLaptop X515EA_X515EA
v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X515EA v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: X515EA.309
date: 05/16/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 28.2 Wh (80.6%) condition: 35.0/37.1 Wh (94.4%)
volts: 7.8 min: 7.8 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: not charging cycles: 40
CPU:
Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11 level: v4 note: check built: 2020
process: Intel 10nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8C (140) stepping: 1
microcode: 0xB8
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 4 cores: 4 threads: 8 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 320 KiB desc: d-4x48 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 5 MiB
desc: 4x1.2 MiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1133 min/max: 400/4200 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 1133 2: 1133 3: 1133 4: 1133 5: 1133 6: 1133
7: 1133 8: 1133 bogomips: 38720
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB:
conditional; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: SW sequence; BHI: SW loop, KVM: SW
loop
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: i915 v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Gen-12.1 process: Intel 10nm
built: 2020-21 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1
bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a49 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Sonix USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 322e:2103
class-ID: 0e02
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.13 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.3
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 res: 1600x900 size: N/A modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris wayland:
drv: iris x11: drv: iris
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.2.4-arch1.1
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:9a49 memory: 7.48 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.295 layers: N/A device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
name: Intel Xe Graphics (TGL GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 24.2.4-arch1.1
device-ID: 8086:9a49 surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-LP Smart Sound Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs,snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl
bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:a0c8 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.11.3-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6E AX210/AX1675 2x2 [Typhoon Peak] driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:2725 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX210 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-10:3 chip-ID: 8087:0032
class-ID: e001
Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: see --recommends
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a0b rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 94.33 GiB (10.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Crucial model: CT1000T500SSD8
size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: P8CR003 temp: 25.9 C
scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 922.42 GiB size: 906.86 GiB (98.31%)
used: 94.33 GiB (10.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 288 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: yes
compressor: zstd max-pool: 20%
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 0
Info:
Memory: total: 16 GiB note: est. available: 15.32 GiB used: 3.42 GiB (22.3%)
Processes: 293 Power: uptime: 49m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
avail: deep wakeups: 1 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 6.12 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 256 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1449 libs: 373 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Compilers: gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: konsole
Launched Discover from the terminal, got this (which with my limited knowledge doesn’t tell me much)
plasma-discover
libs QList("/usr/lib/qt6/plugins", "/usr/bin")
org.kde.plasma.libdiscover: OdrsReviewsBackend: Fetch ratings: false
adding empty sources model QStandardItemModel(0x6136d3c41fd0)
org.kde.plasma.libdiscover: error loading "fwupd-backend" "Cannot load library /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/discover/fwupd-backend.so: libfwupd.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" QJsonObject({"IID":"org.kde.muon.AbstractResourcesBackendFactory","archlevel":1,"className":"FwupdBackendFactory","debug":false,"version":395008})
qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/kirigami/dialogs/Dialog.qml:344:18: QML ScrollView: Binding loop detected for property "calculatedImplicitWidth":
qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/kirigami/dialogs/Dialog.qml:358:9
qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/kirigami/dialogs/Dialog.qml:344:18: QML ScrollView: Binding loop detected for property "calculatedImplicitHeight":
qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/kirigami/dialogs/Dialog.qml:361:9
qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/kirigami/dialogs/Dialog.qml:401:33: QML Binding: Binding loop detected for property "value":
qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/kirigami/dialogs/Dialog.qml:409:13
qrc:/qt/qml/org/kde/discover/qml/BrowsingPage.qml:17:1: QML BrowsingPage: Created graphical object was not placed in the graphics scene.
PackageKitBackend: No distro component found for "org.manjaro.manjaro"
AppStreamIntegration: No distro component found for "org.manjaro.manjaro"
looking for cache entry
looking for cache entry 0
cache entry KNSCore::Entry(uniqueId: "2185639", name:"Nightglow Blue", status: Installed, installedFiles: QList("/home/henry/.local/share/aurorae/themes/nightglowblue/*")) "" ""
UPDATABLE QList()
looking for cache entry
looking for cache entry 0
cache entry KNSCore::Entry(uniqueId: "2186993", name:"Nightglow Blue", status: Installed, installedFiles: QList("/home/henry/.local/share/color-schemes/NightglowBlue.colors")) "1.0" "1.0"
UPDATABLE QList()
looking for cache entry
looking for cache entry 1
cache entry KNSCore::Entry(uniqueId: "1449538", name:"Spectrum Light", status: Installed, installedFiles: QList("/home/henry/.local/share/icons/spectrum-folders-light/*", "/home/henry/.local/share/icons/spectrum-light/*")) "0.2" "0.2"
looking for cache entry
looking for cache entry 3
cache entry KNSCore::Entry(uniqueId: "1367155", name:"PlasmaX icon theme", status: Installed, installedFiles: QList("/home/henry/.local/share/icons/PlasmaXDark/*")) "0.2" "0.2"
looking for cache entry
looking for cache entry 4
cache entry KNSCore::Entry(uniqueId: "2180417", name:"Aretha-Dark-Icons", status: Installed, installedFiles: QList("/home/henry/.local/share/icons/Aretha-Dark-Icons/*")) "" ""
looking for cache entry
looking for cache entry 0
cache entry KNSCore::Entry(uniqueId: "1449532", name:"Spectrum Dark", status: Installed, installedFiles: QList("/home/henry/.local/share/icons/spectrum-dark/*", "/home/henry/.local/share/icons/spectrum-folders-dark/*")) "0.2" "0.2"
looking for cache entry
looking for cache entry 0
cache entry KNSCore::Entry(uniqueId: "2185639", name:"Nightglow Blue", status: Installed, installedFiles: QList("/home/henry/.local/share/aurorae/themes/nightglowblue/*")) "" ""
UPDATABLE QList()
looking for cache entry
looking for cache entry 0
cache entry KNSCore::Entry(uniqueId: "2186817", name:"Nightglow Blue", status: Installed, installedFiles: QList("/home/henry/.local/share/wallpapers/NightglowBlue/*")) "1.0" "1.0"
UPDATABLE QList()
looking for cache entry
looking for cache entry 2
cache entry KNSCore::Entry(uniqueId: "1279924", name:"Tela-icon-theme", status: Installed, installedFiles: QList("/home/henry/.local/share/icons/Tela-dark/*", "/home/henry/.local/share/icons/Tela-light/*", "/home/henry/.local/share/icons/Tela/*")) "" ""
UPDATABLE QList(KNSCore::Entry(uniqueId: "1279924", name:"Tela-icon-theme", status: Updateable, installedFiles: QList("/home/henry/.local/share/icons/Tela-dark/*", "/home/henry/.local/share/icons/Tela-light/*", "/home/henry/.local/share/icons/Tela/*")))
The puzzling thing to me is the fact that I installed Discover, removed Discover, Packagekit-qt6, re-installed Packagekit-Qt6, re-installed Discover and it continues to show the same error.
My aim is to use Discover as a convenient means to update themes and icons without having to lurk in the KDE Store.