the little red popup window (packagekit) from the lower right showed yum updates

I did a yum update and no updates!

I tried again this morning and no updates

Did you tried from the terminal?That way we could see the errors.

there are no errors...just the usual message

LMKIII (root) ~ [1000]>yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
LMKIII (root) ~ [1001]>

I have package kit set up to only notify.

I do therefore get the red window notifying me of updates.

I close it and switch to command line "yum update"

I thought that maybe the package kit software screwed up and installed the updates anyway.

I looked in the log "cat /var/log/yum.log" and no updates have been made lately.

Maybe somebody jerked the updates for some reason!

Did this method that you've used worked before?Packagekit is a complicated application so this problem could be caused by so many reasons.
What's the version of Pk?Lots of people reported many bugs for version 0.2.3.
Maybe you could remove PK and install yumex,just to see if the update process will work then,if so,few things would be clearer.
You could try:
or Maybe it would help.
Please post the output of

LMKIII (root) ~ [1000]>gedit /etc/yum.repos.d
LMKIII (root) ~ [1001]>lsa /etc/yum.repos.d
total 80
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-12 11:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x 143 root root 12288 2009-02-07 18:39 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179 2007-07-25 15:45 adobe-linux-i386.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1909 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1090 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1216 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora-updates-newkey.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1108 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora-updates.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1289 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora-updates-testing-newkey.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1181 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1070 2008-12-06 11:37 livna.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1022 2008-11-03 07:16 rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1079 2008-11-03 07:16 rpmfusion-free.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1134 2008-11-03 07:16 rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1194 2008-11-03 07:16 rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1067 2008-11-03 07:22 rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1124 2008-11-03 07:22 rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1179 2008-11-03 07:22 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1239 2008-11-03 07:22 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo
LMKIII (root) ~ [1002]>

this worked:
yum clean all && yum clean metadata && yum clean dbcache && yum makecache && yum update

I had previously done a yum clean all to no avail...THANKS!

output:



LMKIII (root) ~ [1002]>yum clean all && yum clean metadata && yum clean dbcache && yum makecache && yum update
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Cleaning up Everything
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
0 metadata files removed
0 sqlite files removed
0 metadata files removed
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
0 sqlite files removed
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
livna | 2.4 kB 00:00
livna/filelists_db | 1.3 kB 00:00
livna/other_db | 1.0 kB 00:00
livna/group_gz | 451 B 00:00
livna/primary_db | 2.7 kB 00:00
fedora | 2.4 kB 00:00
fedora/filelists_db | 10 MB 00:21
fedora/other_db | 3.4 MB 00:17
fedora/group_gz | 311 kB 00:02
fedora/primary_db | 6.1 MB 00:12
rpmfusion-free-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/filelists_db | 397 kB 00:10
rpmfusion-free-updates/other_db | 176 kB 00:06
rpmfusion-free-updates/group_gz | 1.6 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-free-updates/primary_db | 378 kB 00:11
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates | 2.7 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/filelists_db | 78 kB 00:01
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/other_db | 86 kB 00:01
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/group_gz | 927 B 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates/primary_db | 148 kB 00:05
rpmfusion-free | 951 B 00:00
rpmfusion-free/filelists | 210 B 00:00
rpmfusion-free/other | 205 B 00:00
rpmfusion-free/primary | 217 B 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 | 951 B 00:00
adobe-linux-i386/filelists | 173 kB 00:04
adobe-linux-i386/other | 1.9 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386/primary | 10 kB 00:00
updates-newkey | 2.3 kB 00:00
updates-newkey/filelists_db | 7.1 MB 01:49
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/upd...teinfo.xml.gz: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
updates-newkey/updateinfo | 669 kB 00:10
http://mirrors.xmission.com/fedora/u...teinfo.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum
Trying other mirror.
updates-newkey/updateinfo | 670 kB 00:11
updates-newkey/other_db | 11 MB 02:36
updates-newkey/group | 1.3 MB 00:28
updates-newkey/primary_db | 3.8 MB 01:07
updates | 2.6 kB 00:00
updates/filelists_db | 7.5 kB 00:00
updates/updateinfo | 1.6 kB 00:00
updates/other_db | 12 kB 00:00
updates/group | 1.3 MB 00:03
updates/primary_db | 9.1 kB 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree | 951 B 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree/filelists | 194 B 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree/other | 189 B 00:00
rpmfusion-nonfree/primary | 201 B 00:00
adobe-linux-i386 17/17
adobe-linux-i386 17/17
adobe-linux-i386 17/17
Metadata Cache Created
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Update Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package portaudio.i386 0:19-6.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package postgresql.i386 0:8.3.6-1.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package postgresql-libs.i386 0:8.3.6-1.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package postgresql-python.i386 0:8.3.6-1.fc9 set to be updated
---> Package postgresql-server.i386 0:8.3.6-1.fc9 set to be updated
--> Finished Dependency Resolution

Dependencies Resolved

==================================================================================================== ==========================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
==================================================================================================== ==========================
Updating:
portaudio i386 19-6.fc9 updates-newkey 89 k
postgresql i386 8.3.6-1.fc9 updates-newkey 3.4 M
postgresql-libs i386 8.3.6-1.fc9 updates-newkey 214 k
postgresql-python i386 8.3.6-1.fc9 updates-newkey 68 k
postgresql-server i386 8.3.6-1.fc9 updates-newkey 4.6 M

Transaction Summary
==================================================================================================== ==========================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 5 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)

Total download size: 8.4 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/upd....fc9.i386.rpm: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
http://mirrors.xmission.com/fedora/u....fc9.i386.rpm: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
(1/5): postgresql-python-8.3.6-1.fc9.i386.rpm | 68 kB 00:00
(2/5): portaudio-19-6.fc9.i386.rpm | 89 kB 00:01
(3/5): postgresql-libs-8.3.6-1.fc9.i386.rpm | 214 kB 00:02
(4/5): postgresql-8.3.6-1.fc9.i386.rpm | 3.4 MB 00:38
(5/5): postgresql-server-8.3.6-1.fc9.i386.rpm | 4.6 MB 00:56
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Total 57 kB/s | 8.4 MB 02:30
Running rpm_check_debug
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating : postgresql-libs 1/10
Updating : postgresql 2/10
Updating : portaudio 3/10
Updating : postgresql-python 4/10
Updating : postgresql-server 5/10
Cleanup : postgresql-libs 6/10
Cleanup : postgresql-python 7/10
Cleanup : postgresql-server 8/10
Cleanup : postgresql 9/10
Cleanup : portaudio 10/10

Updated:
portaudio.i386 0:19-6.fc9 postgresql.i386 0:8.3.6-1.fc9 postgresql-libs.i386 0:8.3.6-1.fc9
postgresql-python.i386 0:8.3.6-1.fc9 postgresql-server.i386 0:8.3.6-1.fc9

Complete!
LMKIII (root) ~ [1003]>

OK,but you should check that mirrors that didn't work,maybe they are not valid anymore.Also,livna repo has been merged to RPM fusion,so you should delete it from /etc/yum.repos.d.

delete it ONLY if you DO NOT HAVE libdvdcss installed
this one IS on livna

and every now and then package kit will glitch and think there are updates when there are not .
mostly a 64 bit update and you are on a 32 bit system , or visa/versa

delete it from this directory...right?

LMKIII (root) ~ [1001]>lsa /etc/yum.repos.d
total 80
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-01-12 11:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x 143 root root 12288 2009-02-07 18:39 ../
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 179 2007-07-25 15:45 adobe-linux-i386.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1909 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1090 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1216 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora-updates-newkey.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1108 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora-updates.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1289 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora-updates-testing-newkey.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1181 2008-09-08 14:46 fedora-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1070 2008-12-06 11:37 livna.repo <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1022 2008-11-03 07:16 rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1079 2008-11-03 07:16 rpmfusion-free.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1134 2008-11-03 07:16 rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1194 2008-11-03 07:16 rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1067 2008-11-03 07:22 rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1124 2008-11-03 07:22 rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1179 2008-11-03 07:22 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1239 2008-11-03 07:22 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo

Only one package is on livna and that one want be much longer there as the people on the livna.org say.I guess,if necessary,manual update of one package would be OK.
edit> Yes,from that directory.

libdvdcss is NOT installed

so I can delete the file...right?

Yes.

Thanks! The Linux world needs more like you!

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