Bug 406632

Summary:	Discover's checking for updates appears to interfere with other network activity happening at the same time
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	Gary <gh4wi>
Component:	discover	Assignee:	Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <leinir>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aleixpol, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.13.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Gary 2019-04-17 16:38:09 UTC

SUMMARY
Please add a Feature that allows the user to specify when the Discover tool should run.

1) During PC Boot, my VPN is trying to establish a connection, but the Discover tool interferes as it is trying to find updates.
2) Sometimes while I am trying to login to a web site, the Discover tool interferes as it is trying to find updates.

Please allow the user to establish a time for the Discover tool to run, instead of the current forced interference. Thanks, looking forward to a fix.

Kubuntu 18.10
Discover 5.13.5
X64 bit OS

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-04-17 18:27:08 UTC

What do yo mean by "interferes"? What are the symptoms of this interference?

Comment 2 Gary 2019-04-18 12:12:33 UTC

1) Discover prevents VPN from making initial connection.
2) Discover prevents login from working.

User should be able to control when Discover runs.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2019-04-18 12:38:55 UTC

(In reply to Gary from comment #2)
> 1) Discover prevents VPN from making initial connection.
> 2) Discover prevents login from working.
But what made you think it's Discover?

Comment 4 Gary 2019-04-19 12:20:10 UTC

The Discover Icon is on the task bar, usually blinking, when the conflict happens.
When Discover is not active, there is no conflict and everything works ok.
Please add a feature that allows the user to define when Discover should run.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2019-04-19 14:24:33 UTC

Discover shouldn't interfere with other network activities.

Aleix, any idea what might be going on here?

Comment 6 Gary 2019-04-20 12:57:55 UTC

FYI --- I have several PC's, with different CPU & Mobo, which are booted daily and I see the same conflict with Discover & other network usage. Please allow the user to establish when Discover runs. Personally, I would prefer to run it via a cron job prior to shutdown (at Logout). But others may prefer to run it at a set time, say at lunch time. In any case, please end the forced interference which prevents users from working, because they must yield their PC to forced updates. Thanks.

Comment 7 Nate Graham 2019-04-20 13:05:30 UTC

There are no "forced updates". You as the user choose to perform the updates at your leisure. Simply *checking* for updates is what's fixed right now. Regardless of whether or not we offer a configuration UI for this, the more important problem to solve is figuring out why you're seeing poor/no network connectivity during the periods when Discover is checking for updates. If Discover is the cause of that, we need to fix it.

Comment 8 Aleix Pol 2019-04-23 14:48:46 UTC

You can check how often updates are checked using software-properties. This way you can decide when your apt caches update.

Comment 9 Aleix Pol 2019-04-23 14:50:04 UTC

Should work as necessary, an update to newer Plasma could be needed, I don't remember if the behaviour was already in place by 5.13.