Packagekitd keeps writing to logs, uses disk, ram and CPU

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Sorry if I suggest random things.
Could you try to kill gnome-software and see if the issue is still here?
killall gnome-software

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Unfortunately it doesnā€™t solve, I tried it.

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Ok. Letā€™s try to isolate the issue.
Since this continuous get-updates seems triggered by user id 1000 (your user), could you try to create a new user, log off and log in with such brand new user?

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Ok, changing user, the problem doesnā€™t seem to arise.
So at this point is there any user configuration calling packagekitd? which could be?

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Mmh. Maybe some GNOME extension? Some userā€™s systemd timer? Some program that automatically start when the user log in?

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Iā€™ll have to look better. But a software shouldnā€™t start that way without knowing who starts it.
I exclude extensions because I have the same extensions in the other user. Iā€™ve already removed dnfdragora, and itā€™s not him.
Iā€™ll research what causes this very annoying problem and let you know if I have any news.
Thanks Alessio!

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Maybe it is not an extension. But, have you enabled all the same extensions as well for the new user?

Eeeh. Who knows :slight_smile:

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You could file an issue directly to PackageKit developers. Maybe asking (or searching in the issues) if there is a way to know who invoke it and maybe if it is possible to implement it in future releases.

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Uh uh. In a previous screenshot Iā€™ve seen that you use Byobu? Is it?
Maybe the issue is the following one?
https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/issues/322

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Great Alessio!
He was just byobu! When I open byobu I have a flood of packagekit logs which stops as soon as I close it.

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Great.
Have you searched if there is already a bug report, a solution or a workaround, related to that bad behavior? (Apart closing byobu :sweat_smile:)

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The workaround will be to not enable the updates notification bit in byobu. (Iā€™ve been using byobu for years now and never used it, which is why I wasnā€™t seeing a similar flood).

So, in a byobu session, byobu-config and then toggle the updates notification off.

It really is a very weird way of polling for updates. Hereā€™s the bug report against byobu: Bug #1828115 ""updates_availableā€ feature floods PackageKit with... : Bugs : byobu

@emanuc If you can file an issue against the Fedora package, maybe the maintainer can modify this until upstream fixes it?

File a new bug in the ā€œbyobuā€ component of the ā€œFedoraā€ product

You will be able to login to bugzilla using your Fedora account.

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I reported it, hopefully right: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1980327

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