Just wanted to toss this in: My experiences are in agreement with the others above. My laptop is not state of the art, but it's not at dinosaur either.
I have noticed that sometimes, perhaps even most of the time, after at few attempts and clicking away the error message packagekit gets the job done. Right now, for example, it gave the error while I attempted to update the system. I pressed OK, and then made another attempt to update and it's working fine now. Has anyone filed this upstream? -- packagekit says: The backend took too much time to process the synchronous request - you need to fork! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272410 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs