<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Knute Johnson <<a href="mailto:ubuntu@knutejohnson.com" target="_blank">ubuntu@knutejohnson.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> If I go into the Settings Manager, select Main Menu, select a submenu (in this case System) and then attempt to enable the Software Updater (which is update-manager) program on any of the menus it disables itself in a few seconds. I hit the checkbox next to update-manager and a few seconds later it un-checks. Anybody know what I'm doing wrong? </blockquote></div> I don't think yo are doing anything wrong: I did a clean install of XUbuntu12.10 and appear to have the same problem ! Actually it doesn't appear to have anything to do with the update-manager itself, as I tried enabling other items in the system menu and they too disable themselves a second after I check their boxes ! Definitely a good case for a bug report IMHO ! :-/ -- Vince