System update conflicts: what happens now?

[canopusStar]

Operating System updates encounter a conflict and cannot be installed: what happens next?

[lukors]

This happened to me just an hour ago too. I just closed it and I haven't seen anything more about it. Hoping it won't cause any issues going forward.

[canopusStar]

This happened to me just an hour ago too. I just closed it and I haven't seen anything more about it. Hoping it won't cause any issues going forward.

Thanks for confirmation - I rebooted and tried again - issue gone but also concerned might be upstream issue - think the two updates were in the wrong order.

[jeremypw]

Files was recently updated to no longer use a separate libpantheon-files-widgets package - all the code was incorporated into libpantheon-files-core and pantheon-files. So that package was marked as conflicting with the latest Files. It was expected that it would be automatically uninstalled transparently but it seems that a reboot is required.

[4jNsY6fCVqZv]

@jeremypw Would it be possible to make this more user-friendly in the future? Either solve it in such a way that no more error messages are generated, or give the user the information that, for example, a restart fixes the error and the system is now in no way broken.

[jeremypw]

Ideally yes, but I imagine it is not easy to diagnose the problem automatically (I am not an expert on AppCenter). It is not clear why this happened - it did not for me (maybe because I already manually installed the new version of Files). It looks like libpantheon-files-widgets was being updated - but no new version has been released. Instead it should have been uninstalled. Perhaps the backend requires user confirmation to do that, in which case AppCenter should expose that.

[ChildishGiant]

I have this too but my app also stops responding once I get this message. A restart also hasn't fixed this :/

[eldiii1959]

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum but I have had several issues with an OS 6 install. Updates have issues with unmet dependencies. See my screenshot.

1. Operating Systems Updates do not complete (baseline system is OS 6). When a manual (individual updates manually installed) the system becomes OS 6.1 and the browser fails stating there is a conflict. No way to restore to previous instance so I was forced to reinstall OS several times to evaluate root cause.

Thanks!

[danirabbit]

Gonna move this to settings-daemon since we plan to remove packagekit updates from appcenter