[Bug 775417] Re: updates: disagreement between text messages and update-manager

[Robert Roth]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and improve Ubuntu.
As you have mentioned, both Update-Manager and apt-get update and upgrade resulted in no updates available, the only place you have seen that updates are available are the text messages shown on startup, which do come from the update-notifier package, so I am reassigning this bug to that package.
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** Package changed: update-manager (Ubuntu) => update-notifier (Ubuntu)

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Title:
  updates: disagreement between text messages and update-manager

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  I maintain an ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx, 64-bit) server. I do it
  remotely either on command line (using secure shell ssh) or in GUI
  (using ssh -Y and then update-manager). And now what's the problem:

  When I log in, I can see messages

  15 packages can be updated.
  10 updates are security updates.

  I issue the command (on the server, not on local machine)
  sudo update-manager
  do check to refresh the information and then actually perform the update. All items from the update-manager window disappear as they should to after successfull update.

  However: when I log out and then log in again (after few seconds) I
  again get the same message on login:

  15 packages can be updated.
  10 updates are security updates.

  OK, then (and many other times) I try to perform an update from command line using
  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get upgrade

  No positive result. Nothing is updated actually.

  In summary, I observe disagreement between information in the
  graphical update-manager and the text messages typed after log-in.

  Finally I add that I want to keep Lucid on the server.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.134.11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-31.61-server 2.6.32.32+drm33.14
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-31-server x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon May  2 10:04:09 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager

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