[Bug 227282] Re: [hardy] Update Manager and Synaptic fail to install recommended updates without any explanation

[Daniel van Vugt]

@Moses, yours is bug 659438. Not this one.

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Title:
  [hardy] Update Manager and Synaptic fail to install recommended
  updates without any explanation

Status in The synaptic package manager:
  New
Status in “synaptic” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: update-manager

  Update Manager tells me there are 35 updates to be installed. So I
  click Install Updates, see "Reading package information", and
  absolutely nothing happens.

  Now giving up on Update Manager, I open Synaptic and do a reload.
  Eventually Synaptic shows no updates available, while Update Manager
  /does/ show updates available. Looking more closely, Synaptic can't
  even see the higher versioned packages being listed by Update Manager.
  Synaptic lists the over versions, even after the reload.

  I even tried changing repositories in Synaptic, did a reload and
  Synaptic still fails to see the new package versions reported in
  Update Manager.

  Finally, running a "sudo apt-get upgrade" seems to be working and is
  upgrading all the same packages that Update Manager listed in the
  first place. But why are Update Manager and Synaptic both silently
  refusing to install anything?

  Running: Ubuntu 8.04 desktop amd64 (clean installation).

  And no, this is not bug 208612. I don't get any error messages and
  root's home is not broken.

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