14.04 seems subject to bug 1046563 with update-manager/notifier

[John Hupp]

Hi, Julien.

Early in this thread (as below), it seemed like the problem might be 
related to that bug, but even after getting update-notifier running by 
one means or another, I find that I'm never automatically offered the 
updates.

Or rather, to be precise, I was automatically offered updates *once*, on 
an occasion when I manually ran "dbus-launch update-notifier."  (I have 
tested various methods of starting update-notifier, and this was one of 
them.)

But for testing purposes, I have not installed any updates since 5/8 so 
that they should be reliably offered to me if things were working 
right.  A manual run of update-manager now offers 83 MB.

This is on a laptop.  A day or two ago I also installed 14.04 on a 
desktop (plain vanilla configuration), got update-notifier running via a 
workaround, and was not automatically offered updates there either.

Despite these observations, do you think that lxsession or another of 
the packages from the staging PPA will fix the problem?

--John

On 5/16/2014 8:28 AM, Julien Lavergne wrote:
> It's the same bug that the network icon not showing on the panel. Please see :
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxsession/+bug/1309698
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxpanel/+bug/1308348
> https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-dev/+archive/staging for the fix.
>
> And be sure to not have autostarted disable in lxsession-default-apps.
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
> 2014-05-07 21:13 GMT+02:00 John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com>:
>> I don't find the issue in the Lubuntu or Ubuntu 14.04 Release Notes, but it
>> seems like 14.04 is subject to
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1046563,
>> reported for 12.04, in which automatic updating fails.
>>
>> I was noticing that I wasn't being prompted to install software updates.  I
>> ran Software Updater (update-manager) manually once and got a big batch of
>> updates.  I ran it manually again today and it identified another batch that
>> I could get.  It included updates for Software Updater, so perhaps that will
>> fix the problem.
>>
>> There is a big discussion of the problem at
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2222325. And beyond the
>> notification problem, a number of people report seeing big differences
>> between the updates identified by update-manager and Synaptic.
>>
>>
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