Confusing notification messages

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When there are updates to apply, I get an exclamation mark on the update-notifier icon. I click on it and get a notification popup that says something like "click on the notification icon to install updates". If I click on the notification icon - the thing that had the exclamation mark - nothing happens; the popup is renewed. What I have to do is click on the notification popup itself, which then disappears (actually is replaced by a tiny one containing nothing). *Then* I can click on the notification icon to get a menu which allows me to attempt to install updates. This seems like a fairly clumsy sequence of actions, and it would be very easy to assume that, since clicking on the other does nothing, clicking on the notification had installed the updates.

I am using gnome-shell.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: update-notifier 0.119ubuntu8.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.31-lowlatency 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-lowlatency x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 9 00:57:24 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (72 days ago)