Update notifier displays too many updates?

xircon · July 30, 2020, 5:30pm

There were 2 (and no aur pkgs to update):

Packages (2) fwupd-1.4.5-1  grub-tools-1.4.3-1

ramblinwreck · July 30, 2020, 5:34pm

I’m seeing some “weirdness” going on with updates and the number my conky displays right now too. Doing yay and UpdateAllPackages is coming back with nothing to do, but the conky shows a number. I was going to give it sometime and check again in an hour or so. I was thinking it might have to do with the server migration.

xircon · July 30, 2020, 5:36pm

Possible, but I have been seeing it since I installed earlier this week, it is (I think) always double…

ramblinwreck · July 30, 2020, 10:36pm

Ok, sounds different then. Mine is showing a ton of updates are available, but when I check in the terminal it doesn’t do anything. I’ll poke around a little more and see what I might have done. When you type checkupdates in the terminal how many does it show you?

xircon · July 30, 2020, 10:38pm

Nil at the moment, but will test when I get some.

ramblinwreck · July 30, 2020, 11:36pm

Weird. Mine seems to be a different issue for sure. Something decided to downgrade a lot of stuff (81 things) after doing two updates to grub tools and one update to downgrade. They show up in checkupdates but I can’t seem to get them to update, not via terminal or manually in pamac.

freebird54 · July 31, 2020, 12:07am

Very weird. My conky shows 9, and:

┌20:06:35 WD= [/usr/share/conkywx]
└───freebird@nest ─▶$ checkupdatesext
Name                          Current         ->  New             DownloadSize
----                          -------         --  ---             ------------
cmake                         3.18.0-3        ->  3.18.1-1        7.63 MiB
code                          1.47.2-2        ->  1.47.3-1        9.83 MiB
grub-tools                    1.4.1-1         ->  1.4.3-1         13.29 KiB
json-c                        0.14-4          ->  0.15-1          53.91 KiB
linux                         5.7.10.arch1-1  ->  5.7.11.arch1-1  70.84 MiB
linux-headers                 5.7.10.arch1-1  ->  5.7.11.arch1-1  22.13 MiB
r8168                         8.048.03-13     ->  8.048.03-14     116.34 KiB
recode                        3.7.6-2         ->  3.7.7-1         429.22 KiB
virtualbox-host-modules-arch  6.1.12-3        ->  6.1.12-4        153.92 KiB

there they are…

ramblinwreck · July 31, 2020, 12:30am

It must have been a mirror thing. My conky and checkupdates always lined up (probably because the conky is based on that cmd, but still), just when I tried to actually pull the updates it wouldn’t do it, no matter what I tried. I did it just a few minutes ago and it pulled everything though and now conky and checkupdates both show 0. Sorry to hijack this thread @xircon. Please let us know what you see when you test again.

Othoric · July 31, 2020, 12:36am

I had this issue after installing earlier this week as well. It seems the built in update notifier would always have ~2 extra updates than what was listed with yay

manuel · July 31, 2020, 7:01am

Those who have this issue, could you show the output of:

  grep "^\[.*\]$" /etc/pacman.conf

Also, how does eos-update-notifier work if you change configuration at /etc/eos-update-notifier.conf as:

  ShowHowAboutUpdates=window
  ShowWhatAboutUpdates=packages

It is easy to test with commands:

  sudo pacman -S --needed downgrade
  downgrade "a-package-name"   # choose a package here, e.g. geany
  eos-update-notifier

xircon · July 31, 2020, 8:38am

[options]
[core]
[extra]
[community]
[multilib]
[endeavouros]
[herecura]
[archlinuxcn]
[repo-ck]

Changed config file:

Says 5 there are 3 (I downgraded deadbeef).

checkupdatesext
Name               Current  ->  New      DownloadSize
----               -------  --  ---      ------------
deadbeef           1.8.3-1  ->  1.8.4-1  3.57 MiB
python-asn1crypto  1.3.0-1  ->  1.4.0-1  177.36 KiB
python-psutil      5.7.0-1  ->  5.7.1-1  344.24 KiB

manuel · July 31, 2020, 9:24am

Thanks!
Now I see the problem, it simply gives an incorrect number. Reduce 2 and it should be OK.
I’ll fix it as soon as possible.

manuel · July 31, 2020, 10:25am

OK, new version 1.7.6-1 of eos-update-notifier should fix this.

jonathon · July 31, 2020, 10:41am

I guess it was also counting the two header lines,

Name               Current  ->  New      DownloadSize
----               -------  --  ---      ------------

manuel · July 31, 2020, 11:15am

Yes, and that was caused by a recent update a couple days ago, where I didn’t notice the wrong number that the header lines caused.

freebird54 · July 31, 2020, 11:30am

Thanks for finding that gotcha! I am doing up a conky script that might well have picked up that counting quirk…

That means 3 versions now for the stuff from pacman-contrib - checkupdates, checkupdatesext, and checkupd (modded by me to keep the [ignored] pkgs in the list…

manuel · July 31, 2020, 1:42pm

Actually checkupdatesext is not from pacman-contrib, but from eos-update-notifier.

freebird54 · July 31, 2020, 7:26pm

I couldn’t leave the code alone either I like the extra info, and am trying to figure out how to trigger a scrolling conky window only when updates exist…

ramblinwreck · July 31, 2020, 7:32pm

You have my attention…

freebird54 · July 31, 2020, 7:37pm

I have a setup whereby I can scroll, or even smooth scroll, the output from checkupdates. Just trying to decide what will trigger it - perhaps when more than 2 updates are pending? Or 5? No point having an empty window when there aren’t any items to show. Keep an eye on ‘Show Your Desktop’ - I’ll post it there when I get it going the way I want…