[Bug 2060730] Re: totem cannot install codecs via packagekit

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Title:
  totem cannot install codecs via packagekit

Status in packagekit package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in totem package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  While attempting to play a video on Ubuntu noble desktop for raspberry
  pi, totem attempts to locate a package for the H.264 codec but cannot
  find a service providing org.freedesktop.PackageKit. This is strange
  given that packagekit is installed, provides packagekit.service, which
  declares that it provides that name over DBus. Specifically, the
  following is output by totem:

      ** Message: 21:13:39.000: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|MPEG-4 AAC decoder|decoder-audio/mpeg, mpegversion=(int)4, level=(string)4, base-profile=(string)lc, profile=(string)lc (MPEG-4 AAC decoder)
      ** Message: 21:13:39.000: Missing plugin: gstreamer|1.0|totem|H.264 (Main Profile) decoder|decoder-video/x-h264, level=(string)3.1, profile=(string)main (H.264 (Main Profile) decoder)
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: xid = 0
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: desktop_id = org.gnome.Totem.desktop
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: Codec nice name: MPEG-4 AAC decoder
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: ignoring field named level
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: ignoring field named base-profile
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: ignoring field named profile
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: field is: mpegversion, type: gint
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer1(decoder-audio/mpeg)(mpegversion=4)()(64bit)
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: Codec nice name: H.264 (Main Profile) decoder
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: ignoring field named level
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: ignoring field named profile
      ** Message: 21:13:39.414: PackageKit: structure: gstreamer1(decoder-video/x-h264)()(64bit)
      ** Message: 21:13:39.434: PackageKit: Did not install codec: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files
      ** Message: 21:13:39.441: No installation candidate for missing plugins found.

  The packagekit.service is defined as:

      $ systemctl cat packagekit.service
      # /usr/lib/systemd/system/packagekit.service
      [Unit]
      Description=PackageKit Daemon
      # PK doesn't know how to do anything on ostree-managed systems;
      # currently the design is to have dedicated daemons like
      # eos-updater and rpm-ostree, and gnome-software talks to those.
      ConditionPathExists=!/run/ostree-booted
      Wants=network-online.target
      
      [Service]
      Type=dbus
      BusName=org.freedesktop.PackageKit
      User=root
      ExecStart=/usr/libexec/packagekitd

  And just to demonstrate packagekit is actually running:

      $ systemctl status packagekit.service
      ● packagekit.service - PackageKit Daemon
           Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/packagekit.service; static)
           Active: active (running) since Tue 2024-04-09 21:11:35 BST; 2min 23s ago
         Main PID: 1565 (packagekitd)
            Tasks: 4 (limit: 3864)
           Memory: 6.2M (peak: 6.7M)
              CPU: 180ms
           CGroup: /system.slice/packagekit.service
                   └─1565 /usr/libexec/packagekitd
      
      Apr 09 21:11:34 fozzie systemd[1]: Starting packagekit.service - PackageKit Daemon...
      Apr 09 21:11:34 fozzie PackageKit[1565]: daemon start
      Apr 09 21:11:35 fozzie systemd[1]: Started packagekit.service - PackageKit Daemon.

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