On my system I had to disable apt-daily and apt-daily-upgrade through > systemd. This command will tell you if those are installed/enabled on > your system: > > systemctl status apt-daily apt-daily-upgrade > > $ systemctl is-enabled apt-daily-upgrade.timer apt-daily.timer disabled disabled
i think my next step will be to use dbus-monitor to check what is calling packagekitd. thanks for your help