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

[brendanperrine]

On Sat, 17 May 2014 14:37:38 -0400
John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com> wrote:

> Some fresh experiences today:
> 
> I booted the laptop, manually ran just "update-notifier" from the 
> terminal (and yes, I did forget to add " &"), and Software Updater 
> appeared almost immediately to offer a big batch of updates.
> 
> Rather inexplicable, but running with it just to see what would happen, 
> I rebooted without installing anything, added update-notifier to Default 
> applications for LXSession: Autostart tab, and rebooted again.  The 
> update-notifier changelog indicates that it is supposed to poll every 
> 180 seconds.  For good measure I gave it 10 minutes, but Software 
> Updater did not appear.  I rebooted 10 times and waited 10 minutes each 
> time, all with the same no-show results.
> 
> I also booted the desktop on which I installed 14.04 a couple days ago.  
> I did not manually run update-notifier but instead set up the 
> update-notifier workaround in Default applications for LXSession.  I 
> rebooted and *Software Updater almost immediately offered 140+ MB of 
> updates*, which I installed.
> 
> Back on the laptop, I gave it an Ethernet connection and rebooted 5 more 
> times, waiting 10 minutes each time.  Still no updates offered.
> 
> I removed the update-notifier entry from Default applications for 
> LXSession: Autostart, pulled the Ethernet plug, switched the WiFi back 
> on, and rebooted.  I ran "update-notifier &" from a terminal and waited 
> 10 minutes.  No results.  I did this 5 times.
> 
> Then I did the same as above but ran "dbus-launch update-notifier &" 
> instead.  I did this 3 times with no results.
> 
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> 
> The only hypothesis I can see from the above is that 
> update-notifier/manager will offer the updates once (per day?), and if 
> you don't install them it will not offer them again.
> 
> Could this be?
> 
> 
I think in software and updates from the menu is set to check daily by default. 

-- 
ianorlin aka Brendan Perrine <walterorlin at gmail.com>