update manager gui failing

[yonas abraham]

On 7/14/06, Ouattara Oumar Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > in dapper, the updater applet comes up now and then with "there are xx
> > updates" when i click it, it ask me my password and shows me the
> > update information progress bar and it dissapirs. the aplet change its
> > color to dark and the toltips show "a package manager is working". But
> > it never update anything.
>
> Normally, it says "a package manager is working" when there is a lock
> created by a package management system. Do you have synaptic or any
> package manager opened when you try to update ?

No I don't have any package manager opened. Actually the Applet caomes
back to full orage color after like 5 min or so and keep says "there
are xx updates available". So I think the lock was coming from the
aplet updater itself.