Blank Updates status

[Colin Law]

On 17 August 2013 21:31, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
> On 08/17/2013 11:58 AM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>
>> John R. Sowden wrote:
>>>
>>> I am surprised that we are not hearing feedback re: the blank updates.
>>> Is canonical testing us to see if we are gullible enough to just
>>> download anything?  Is this a survey to test our level of concern re:
>>> security?
>>
>> In what way did you inform Canonical about the problem that you expect a
>> feedback from them? And why do you ask here? This is a list where Ubuntu
>> users can get technical support from other Ubuntu users. Please don't
>> expect Canonical to watch this list.
>>
>> BTW: There was a reply to your previous thread with a link to a bug
>> report where a workaround was mentioned. Did that not work for you?
>>
>>
>> Nils
>>
>>
> Sounds like we're in the 'shooting the messenger' mode.
>
> 1a) I saw a message re: the bug.  I went where the link sent me.  I read
> that 'yes, there is a problem', but I saw nothing else.


Comment #3 of the bug report linked to previously [1] says that a
workaround is to run
sudo apt-get upgrade
in a terminal.

In fact
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
is probably better.  Even better is
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
which will not rely on Update Manager having already run "update"
(which fetches the list of packages to be updated).

Colin

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1211511