Unable to communicate with OSTree

[gh0sti]

Explain what happens

1. started messing with cockpit and making sure software was up to date
2. somehow broke communication with OSTree where cockpit can't check for software updates
3. reinstalled cockpit backports 239 can't get it to update to 270 which I was able to keep it up to date for awhile, still troubleshooting that

Version of Cockpit

239-1

Where is the problem in Cockpit?

Software updates

Server operating system

other

Server operating system version

Bullseye 11 32bit

What browsers are you using?

Chrome

System log

No response

[martinpitt]

Seems you accidentally installed cockpit-ostree. Uninstall it again, and all will be happy again.

[martinpitt]

Please check cockpit-bridge --packages what "updates" points to. It should be /usr/share/cockpit/packagekit, but as it complains about OStree, it must be ".../ostree" somewhere. "bullseye" is Debian, which is classic apt. OSTree does not work on this machine. Somehow you seem to have managed to install cockpit-ostree, if not through a package then through make install or something similar.

[gh0sti]

I was able to remove the ostree which has fixed the issue, thank you for pointing me in that direction.

[AriMcBrown]

accidentally installed? Which "Application" includes it then? I can't recall installing it manually.

This behavior started after an update.

sudo dnf remove ostree fixed it for me

[unlikelyusername]

Seems this is a new/different issue. On my system (Fedora 36), I found that automated nightly updates automatically installed cockpit-ostree, 'breaking' the software update page.

dnf.log:2022-10-29T04:08:06-0400 DEBUG Installed: cockpit-ostree-1:190.1-1.fc36.noarch

removing cockpit-ostree corrected the issue, but it should not have been automatically installed.

[garrett]

While this seems to be a problem with Fedora's dependencies, I've opened an issue about how cockpit-ostree could handle this better, especially as not everyone will check our issue tracker (nor should they have to).

cockpit-project/cockpit-ostree#295