no "upgrade available" notification

[D. R. Evans]

Clay Weber said the following at 04/25/2009 07:42 PM :

> 
> Have you tried the instructions given in the link? They are  there in case 
> such an event as yours happens. Just follow the link from there to the 8.10 

I beg to differ. They are there (I think) for the case that the updater
somehow is not running.

> specific instructions (or whichever version you have). It will tell you how to 
> make the updater start if you do not get the notification.

Um... I hate to say this, but:

1) that's not the question. The question was: should I be worried that I
haven't seen an upgrade notification?

The answer seems to be "Yes", but no one has actually said that yet.

[Of course, if the answer *is* "Yes", the follow-on question is going to
be: (1) how could that have happened? (2) how do I fix it?] But I repeat
that we have not passed the threshold issue yet.]

2) As I said:

>> In other words my system is completely consistent: it simply doesn't
>> believe that an upgrade is available.

Or are you telling me that I have to download a CD? May be that's what I
have to do... and yet the page distinctly talks about the possibility of
upgrading over the Internet, and that's always been available before. So I
don't think I'm supposed to have to download a CD.

I know that the instructions tell me how to start the updater. I don't see
the relevance. If I start the updater manually, it simply tells me that
there is no upgrade. No suprise there, since the system believes that there
are no files that need upgrading. If I keep asking the same question (i.e.,
"Can you please upgrade?") I'm not really surprised that no matter how I
ask the question, I keep getting the same answer (i.e., "No; there are no
files here that need upgrading.")

> 
> With folks upgrading from system using unsupported repos such as backports or 
> PPA's, there will be some issues that pop up like this.

As I said in my original posting, I'm afraid that none of that applies. The
machine in question has a plain vanilla clean install of 32-bit intrepid
from CD. There may be a (very) few extra packages installed beyond the
minimal set, but they would all be from the official repositories. I am
very careful about that.

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