update-notifier does not work

[Horst Schlonz]

Am Dienstag, den 10.01.2006, 04:50 -0500 schrieb 'Forum Post:
> dan Wrote: 
> > On 09/01/06, Horst Schlonz <horst.schlonz (AT) gmx (DOT) de> wrote:
> > > update-notifier is running but it does not notify me about updates. i
> > > have to do updates manually. what can i do?
> > 
> > Do you mean what can you do to fix the update-notifier? Or do you mean
> > how can you update manually?
> > ___________________________________
> > 
>  I think that he/she wants to know how he/she :) can get update-notifier
>  to notify again. I have exactly the same problem here. Gnome
>  system-monitor shows that update-notifier is using about 20mb of
>  virtual memory and it is sleeping. Still, it doesn't notify of new
>  updates until you start update-notifier yourself...

this is exactly, what i meant.

i can't start update-notifier myself because it is already running.
sadly it doesn't do anything.