Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Tom Horsley
Out of the blue, I just got popup messages on my screen first telling me a new version of fedora is ready to install then a few minutes and lots of net access later telling me updates were ready to install. What is doing this crap?! I have all the automatic update junk turned off, who has re-activ

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/27/2017 04:21 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: Out of the blue, I just got popup messages on my screen first telling me a new version of fedora is ready to install then a few minutes and lots of net access later telling me updates were ready to install. What is doing this crap?! I have all the autom

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Ed Greshko
On 05/28/17 07:21, Tom Horsley wrote: > Out of the blue, I just got popup messages on my > screen first telling me a new version of fedora > is ready to install then a few minutes and lots of > net access later telling me updates were ready to > install. > > What is doing this crap?! I have all the

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread stan
On Sat, 27 May 2017 16:31:10 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 05/27/2017 04:21 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > What is doing this crap?!? > > The packagekit service. I have masked it on my computer. How did you mask it? It isn't there in systemctl -a -t service, even though there is a file in /usr/

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
Tom Horsley wrote: > Out of the blue, I just got popup messages on my > screen first telling me a new version of fedora > is ready to install then a few minutes and lots of > net access later telling me updates were ready to > install. > > What is doing this crap?! I have all the automatic > upda

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Peter Gueckel
Peter Gueckel wrote: > Could it be dnfdragora-updater? I've always hated those auto-updater apps, too, but dnfdragora is the first one I actually like (but I still run dnf upgrade on the command line 99% of the time). ___ users mailing list -- users@l

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 27 May 2017 16:31:10 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: > The packagekit service. I have masked it on my computer. That may do it, but I still have no idea where the popup messages suddenly came from. I run my own custom .fvwm session and try to avoid starting all the annoying junk that a gnome se

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 05/27/2017 06:23 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2017 16:31:10 -0700 Samuel Sieb wrote: The packagekit service. I have masked it on my computer. That may do it, but I still have no idea where the popup messages suddenly came from. I run my own custom .fvwm session and try to avoid s

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-27 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 27May2017 21:23, Tom Horsley wrote: That may do it, but I still have no idea where the popup messages suddenly came from. I run my own custom .fvwm session and try to avoid starting all the annoying junk that a gnome session starts. In all the time I've been running f24 and fvwm, I've never s

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-28 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 28 May 2017 15:18:30 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: > Suggestion: when the popup is up, do a ps. Close the popup. ps again. If > you're > lucky you'll be able to see the responsible program (or some "alert" tool, > invoked by the evildoer). I was about to try that, but apparently they ar

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-28 Thread stan
On Sat, 27 May 2017 18:09:22 -0700 stan wrote: > How did you mask it? It isn't there in systemctl -a -t service, > even though there is a file in /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services. I > manually disable it each time it updates by moving the file to a .bak > version, so masking it would be a lot

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-28 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 28May2017 09:14, Tom Horsley wrote: On Sun, 28 May 2017 15:18:30 +1000 Cameron Simpson wrote: Suggestion: when the popup is up, do a ps. Close the popup. ps again. If you're lucky you'll be able to see the responsible program (or some "alert" tool, invoked by the evildoer). I was about to

Re: Now what do I need to squash?

2017-05-29 Thread Richard Hughes
On 28 May 2017 at 00:21, Tom Horsley wrote: > What is doing this crap?! I have all the automatic > update junk turned off, who has re-activated it > and how do I make it stop? This crap is gnome-software. I don't think there is a gsetting to turn off just the distro upgrade functionality, but if