Whenever I open discover after booting my PC, it takes forever to be able to use it to install anything due to the endless “Fetching updates”. I realised that this issue is caused by packagekitd taking an absurd amount of time to refresh it’s cache, it seems completely stalled too. I opened and closed Discover a couple times and ran pkmon
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/198_abdbeaec allow_cancel 1
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/200_cbeaacbe role refresh-cache
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/197_cbbcdeac allow_cancel 1
/197_cbbcdeac percentage 63
/197_cbbcdeac role refresh-cache
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Also as a side effect of this stalling whenever I shut down in this state I get:
A stop job is running for PackageKitd [0s/1m30s]
and it ticks until the timer runs out and shutdowns.
I am now installing everything using dnf, but having packagekitd broken like this makes automatic offline updates broken too.