Important software updates are available...

[dhjdhjdhj]

I upgraded from Fedora 15 to 17 with mostly no problems and it is working fine.

However, every now and again I get a notification that "Important software updates are available". When I click on the button to install them, it displays the list of updates and I can click "Install Updates". When I do this, it looks like it is installing the first one but then stops and tells me it failed to obtain authentication.

It never asked me for authentication!

Should I just do a yum update and ignore this mechanism?

What's the scoop?

Thanks,
D

[smr54]

I would do the yum update. I have no idea what gives this notification, but would guess that it's packagekit.

[marko]

Also, both pam and PackageKit have been updated for Fedora 17 back in July, the yum update might also result in PackageKit working from that point on

[dhjdhjdhj]

OK - thanks --- just seems a bit bizarre that something like this would not have been noticed before.

D