Today the entry is just a quick one to show my complete disagreement about automatic software updates at shutdown/reboot. I really do not know if I have understood this completely (not much information is available or it is really hard to find) but I am not going to spend more time on this shit.
First I detected in my fedora laptop that, after upgrading to version 33, when I powered off the computer the popup window showed a check with an option to install pending software updates, and it was ticked by default. I do not know why it was activated, I have never manually clicked it before or manually enabled something (at least that I am aware of it). I think that it is because of the upgrade to gnome 3.38 but not sure. Maybe if I had unchecked the option it would have remained unchecked for the next shutdown or restart, I do not know. This was the window but with the checkbox ticked.
In my laptop I just removed the package-kit to avoid this nonsense completely. The option and the check are not even shown now at shutdown.
dnf remove gnome-packagekit-common PackageKit
But the biggest surprise came later from my desktop. It is a testing debian box and I upgraded it a few days ago. It was almost midnight and I power it off just going to sleep. The fucking box appeared enabled by default and I was so fast that I clicked the power off button mechanically. I had just the time to see that I had screwed it up. As I commented several times in the blog my sansumg TV does not send the modelines to my PC, so I have to set them forcefully and the console is lost. So the upgrade started and I could not see it. After some minutes I decided to force the shutdown and start the machine again. Obviously I needed to connect from my laptop (switching it on) and run a reconfigure, finish the upgrade and fix some issues with a corrupted locale. It could have been worse. I also removed the package-kit again to avoid this shit.
apt-get remove packagekit
It was 1 a.m. when I went to the bed that day. Thanks a lot!
I was searching about this behavior and found nothing. I do not know why the checkbox appeared clicked in my two computers (fedora and debian) or if it can be disabled or defaulted to unchecked. Removing package-kit seems to work for me. I hate when linux picks up windows habits. If you are not careful you will start an upgrade (how long could it be?) when you are shutting down your PC. Maybe you are in a hurry but, what the hell! Upgrade it now! I do not know if I am the only one seeing this nonsense but I have a terrible feeling that I will suffer this again.
Please default the option to disabled! Or give an easy way to disable it!
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