[Bug 1943189] Re: "cannot refresh whilst network offline" bug

[Erich Eickmeyer ]

Thanks, @Kai. I can confirm that I put that in the wrong location in the
patch (but not on my system). Working on a new patch now.

@Julian, I'll add a new patch momentarily. In the meantime, I'm
reopening this.

** Changed in: packagekit (Ubuntu Impish)
       Status: Fix Released => In Progress

** Changed in: packagekit (Ubuntu Impish)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Erich Eickmeyer  (eeickmeyer)

** Description changed:

- Impact]
+ [Impact]
  
  In Ubuntu Impish, an issue has been noted in regards to refreshing
  packages in Plasma Discover for upgrade or installation. An error
  appears upon initialization of the Discover interface:
  
  "cannot refresh whilst network offline"
  
  This will happen regardless of if a system is online or not.
  
  I identified a race condition in which this is occurring on systems
  where packagekitd is initialized before the network service is online.
  This was a relatively easy fix and required adding one line to the
  packagekit.service file:
  
  Wants=network-online.target
  
  This ensures that packagekitd is not initialized prior to being online.
  If the 90 second deadline isn't met, then packagekitd will simply not
  start as a background process until the user connects to the network and
  initializes it via a graphical utility, such as with GNOME Software or
  Plasma Discover, both of which initialize packagekitd on a user level.
  
  The attached patch will easily apply the fix via normal Debian packaging
  methods.
  
  [Test Plan]
  
-  * Install Kubuntu or Ubuntu Studio
+  * Install Kubuntu or Ubuntu Studio
  
-  * While connected to network, Run Discover
+  * While connected to network, Run Discover
  
-  * Discover will complain about "cannot refresh whilst offline", which
+  * Discover will complain about "cannot refresh whilst offline", which
  is being communicated from PackageKit. All functionality in Discover is
  hindered from this point forward. This is due to a hung packagekitd
  process which sees the network offline, even though this is false.
  
  [Where problems could occur]
  
-  * packagekitd's systemd service will time-out after 90 seconds if
+  * packagekitd's systemd service will time-out after 90 seconds if
  systemd finds no network, which means any update notifications will not
  automatically start until packagekitd is manually started. Luckily,
  Discover and GNOME Software both attempt to start packagekitd for the
  user when run. I'd consider this to be expected behavior for an offline
  system. The fix is mostly to prevent the false-negative of the system
  being offline when it's really not.
  
  [Other Info]
-  
-  * This fix has been accepted upstream by the PackageKit maintainers as a sane workaround for when gio misbehaves or otherwise. It's a decent safety net. https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/pull/506
+ 
+  * This fix has been accepted upstream by the PackageKit maintainers as
+ a sane workaround for when gio misbehaves or otherwise. It's a decent
+ safety net. https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/pull/506
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 21.10
  Package: packagekit 1.2.2-2ubuntu1 [modified: lib/systemd/system/packagekit.service]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-14.14-lowlatency 5.13.1
  Uname: Linux 5.13.0-14-lowlatency x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu68
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Thu Sep  9 16:34:12 2021
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-03-20 (172 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 21.04 "Hirsute Hippo" - Alpha amd64 (20210320)
  SourcePackage: packagekit
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to impish on 2021-06-13 (88 days ago)

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