14.04 seems subject to bug 1046563 with update-manager/notifier
John Hupp
lubuntu at prpcompany.com
Mon May 19 16:49:37 UTC 2014
Software Updater appeared again today. That's two days in a row. I left
some updates uninstalled, so if it appears again tomorrow I am ready to
call this solved.
For anyone just tuning in now, the bug in which 14.04 does not autostart
anything from /etc/xdg/autostart affects update-notifier (yes, it's in
the Release Notes, but I only remembered the application to nm-applet).
But the behavior of update-notifier and update-manager is governed by
software-properties-gtk (Preferences: Software & Updates: Updates tab),
and the setting there to "Automatically check for updates: Daily" seems
to be not a statement about how often update servers are checked, but
rather how often updates will be offered to the user. So even after I
got update-notifier running via the prescribed workaround, my testing
method (rebooting after changing this, that or the other, then waiting
to see if Software Updater would appear) was doomed to show that updates
were unreliable. If the user refuses updates once for the sake of
testing, and reboots another 100 times that day, the updates will not be
offered again.
On 5/18/2014 1:38 PM, bapoumba wrote:
> Hello,
>
> software-properties got offered to be upgraded when I booted up this
> morning :)
>
>
> On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 5:23 PM, John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com
> <mailto:lubuntu at prpcompany.com>> wrote:
>
> When I booted the laptop today (with the Default applications for
> LXSession in place), I was immediately offered updates, so I take
> that as a good initial confirmation of what I posted yesterday.
>
> I installed some, but not all of the updates, so we'll see if I'm
> offered more over the next couple days.
>
>
> On 5/17/2014 5:07 PM, bapoumba wrote:
>> Hey John,
>>
>> everything is set up to daily.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> b.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 10:46 PM, John Hupp
>> <lubuntu at prpcompany.com <mailto:lubuntu at prpcompany.com>> wrote:
>>
>> At this point I'd like to think that there is much less of a
>> problem than I thought for a while, but since the issue has
>> security implications it's worth being sure.
>>
>> Assuming proper behavior for a moment, apart from phased
>> updates, another delineation point is whether the available
>> updates are Security or Other. Preferences: Software &
>> Updates: Updates (software-properties-gtk) by default is set
>> to display security updates immediately (but only once daily,
>> as it now seems to mean!), but other updates weekly. So if
>> your list happens to include only other updates, then nothing
>> would appear for a week.
>>
>>
>> On 5/17/2014 4:34 PM, bapoumba wrote:
>>> Hello :)
>>>
>>> I've been keeping an eye on this.
>>>
>>> For 2 days, update-notifier has not reported anything. just
>>> checked today with apt-get and got this from a simulation on
>>> upgrade :
>>>
>>> The following packages will be upgraded:
>>> apport apport-gtk python3-apport python3-problem-report
>>> python3-software-properties software-properties-common
>>> software-properties-gtk
>>>
>>> Looking here :
>>> http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/phased-updates.html
>>> <http://people.canonical.com/%7Eubuntu-archive/phased-updates.html>,
>>> I see software-propoerties has currently been offered to 90%
>>> of users and is on day 2, I'll wait for a day or two.
>>> The other one that I have installed and could be upgraded is
>>> apport, but it is being blocked due to
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/1282349
>>> The apport bug seems fixed, but the package offered by
>>> apt-get is still 2.14.1 :
>>>
>>> Inst apport [2.14.1-0ubuntu3] (2.14.1-0ubuntu3.1
>>> Ubuntu:14.04/trusty-updates [all])
>>>
>>> when the fix is in package apport - 2.14.2-0ubuntu1, only
>>> available in utopic for now (I'm on trusty).
>>>
>>> So we'll see.
>>> Cheers,
>>> b.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 9:36 PM, John Hupp
>>> <lubuntu at prpcompany.com <mailto:lubuntu at prpcompany.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 5/17/2014 2:57 PM, brendanperrine wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, 17 May 2014 14:37:38 -0400
>>> John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com
>>> <mailto: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.
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> I see that now, and that may be the simple and good
>>> explanation for what appeared to be bad behavior.
>>> Though update-notifier runs as a daemon and polls every
>>> 180s, it is update-manager that actually offers the
>>> updates, so clearly there is some mechanism between them
>>> (which I have asked about here before).
>>>
>>> Software-properties-gtk (aka Preferences: Software &
>>> Updates) is supposed to "manage the repositories that
>>> you install software from," and its manpage describes it
>>> simply as a software sources list editor, but via its
>>> Updates tab it also seems to govern update-notifier/manager.
>>>
>>> Since it cannot be set to check more often than daily,
>>> it looks like I'll have to wait until tomorrow to
>>> confirm whether it works, but I'll manually add
>>> update-notifier back to the Autostart list.
>>>
>>> If that succeeds, then there really is no deep problem,
>>> only the problem with /etc/xdg/autostart that also
>>> affects nm-applet, etc., for which we have the
>>> workaround (and for which a true fix is in the works).
>>>
>>> Thanks, Brendan!
>>>
>>>
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