[Bug 1046563] Re: update-manager never appears on lubuntu precise > trusty
Mélodie
meets at gmx.fr
Mon Jul 7 11:10:02 UTC 2014
Hi,
I have several installs of Ubuntu Openbox Remix (Bento, a custom version
which works very well besides that).
I would guess that this issue does not affect only Lubuntu or Bento, but
also other versions. I had a talk with a guy on IRC a few days ago, he
is running Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 and he had not been warned since some
time, and had 130 packages available for update.
One of the installs I have, (a x86_64 version, on a netbook Samsung
N210, which is not often used) has not been yet updated since 12.04.1,
so I thought I would test how it goes with update-notifier and update-
manager.
I just started the distribution, and **a while after**, update-notifier
**appeared**. It's not instant, it does take some time!
So I looked at the packages which will be updated, and update-notifier,
update-manager, and update-manager-common do appear in the list of
packages to be updated.
The versions before updating are as follow:
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[root at bento64:/etc/apt]# apt-cache policy update-notifier
update-notifier:
Installé : 0.119ubuntu8.6
Candidat : 0.119ubuntu8.6
Table de version :
*** 0.119ubuntu8.6 0
500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
0.119ubuntu8.1 0
500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
[root at bento64:/etc/apt]# apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
Installé : 1:0.156.14.12
Candidat : 1:0.156.14.13
Table de version :
1:0.156.14.13 0
500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
*** 1:0.156.14.12 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:0.156.14.5 0
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64 Packages
1:0.156.14 0
500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
[root at bento64:/etc/apt]# apt-cache policy update-manager-core
update-manager-core:
Installé : 1:0.156.14.12
Candidat : 1:0.156.14.13
Table de version :
1:0.156.14.13 0
500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
*** 1:0.156.14.12 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:0.156.14.5 0
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64 Packages
1:0.156.14 0
500 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
[root at bento64:/etc/apt]#
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Here is the sources.list used: http://paste.ubuntu.com/7759622/
and here is what will be updated in a moment:
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[root at bento64:/etc/apt]# LANG=C apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
apt apt-transport-https apt-utils bsdutils ca-certificates dpkg file firefox firefox-locale-en firefox-locale-fr gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gir1.2-gtk-2.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gnupg
gnupg-agent gnupg2 gpgv grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common gtk2-engines-pixbuf icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea-6-jre-jamvm ifupdown initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin
iproute libapt-inst1.4 libapt-pkg4.12 libavcodec53 libavformat53 libavutil51 libblkid1 libbluetooth3 libcups2 libcupsimage2 libcurl3 libcurl3-gnutls libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau1a
libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libgail-3-0 libgail18 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgnutls26 libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin libgtk-3-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
libgtk2.0-common libgudev-1.0-0 libjson0 libmagic1 libmount1 libnm-glib-vpn1 libnm-glib4 libnm-util2 libnspr4 libnspr4-0d libnss3 libnss3-1d libpostproc52 libsmbclient libssl1.0.0
libswscale2 libtiff4 libudev0 libuuid1 libwbclient0 libxfont1 libxml2 linux-firmware linux-libc-dev mount network-manager openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib
openssh-client openssh-server openssl python-libxml2 ssh synaptic tzdata tzdata-java udev update-manager update-manager-core util-linux uuid-runtime
95 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 142 MB of archives.
After this operation, 20.8 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
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I must confess that I personally don't mind much that update-notifier
works like a "flying shoe" theses days but I care about end users who
don't like learning about system administration and want to use their
computer as they start an oven or a phone call, so for their use and for
the sake of their favorite Ubuntu box, update-notifier is a very
important part of their system. I can tell you, because I have installed
Ubuntu to several people's machines and I have asked them each time if
they wanted the update-notifier warn them when an update is available,
and they have all sayd YES! This is good for me!
I will not perform the update in the Samsung N210, and will be back here
in the coming days with news about how update-notifier behaves (I'll be
adding some sources to the list of repos, to get opportunities of
updates faster).
In the meanwhile, it would be very nice if the devs would have a look at
the changes which were done between the 12.04.1 version where it works,
and the actual version.
I can provide more files from the logs or else later, if I am told what
to provide.
Regards,
Mélodie
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1046563
Title:
update-manager never appears on lubuntu precise > trusty
Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
i have upgraded to 12.04.1 and I've recently noticed that update-
manager no longer prompts to install updates. Previous to 12.04.1, it
was mostly popping up every day.
To reproduce, run the cron script and see if update-manager comes up,
which it won't.
to fix the bug, update-manager should show updates when they are
available.
I believe that update-manager works properly on a default install of
lubuntu 12.04. however, once it runs and updates to the new update
manager, update manager turns itself off.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.156.14.9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-29.46-generic 3.2.24
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Aptdaemon:
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 5 17:28:06 2012
DpkgHistoryLog.txt:
DpkgTerminalLog.txt:
GsettingsChanges:
com.ubuntu.update-manager first-run false
com.ubuntu.update-manager launch-time 1343476329
com.ubuntu.update-manager show-details true
com.ubuntu.update-manager window-height 692
com.ubuntu.update-manager window-width 600
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120205)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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