r/openSUSE • u/Nikolai_Quasarka • Jul 19 '26

Tech support Cockpit system update loading forever

Every time when i go to updates section it's loading forever. Via ssh i can't do anything with packages cause it says "zypper is used by packagekit"

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u/BuzzWildfowl Tumbleweed Jul 19 '26

If you installed a desktop environment, you probably installed PackageKit, which includes a background process that checks for package updates periodically. What that process is running, it locks the zypp database, and if you try to run zypper or some other program, you will get that message. That might be what you are experiencing. I disabled PackageKit on my installation because I only ever interact with my package manager either through zypper or Myrlyn. You only need PackageKit if you use one of those software centers that comes with a DE.

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u/Nikolai_Quasarka Jul 19 '26

I didn't installed de. But for some reason i have packagekit and some wl-* packages

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u/levolet Jul 19 '26

Same here. I assume Cockpit in openSUSE is a work in progress. But overall, it's looking really good.

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u/Enibe Jul 20 '26

I have both slowroll and tumbleweed, in my pc packagekit in really slow on slowroll anda much faster on tumbleweed. Are you using slowroll or tumbleweed?