Update icon and notification disappear after a few seconds when updates are downloaded automatically

Bug #1061469 reported by the-unconventional
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

On Xubuntu 12.10, when updates are found automatically, the update-notifier icon is shown in the indicator applet, and a notification bubble pops up with xfce4-notifyd. However, both disappear after a few seconds, so unless you're monitoring your computer all the time, the updates can easily go unnoticed.

Removing the indicator applet (and thus using the regular notification area) makes no difference. I haven't tested this on Ubuntu yet, though.

ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 4 09:53:57 2012
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: update-notifier 0.122
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-16.25-generic 3.5.4
SourcePackage: update-notifier
Tags: quantal
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-16-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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the-unconventional (the-unconventional-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

It doesn't seem relevant in Ubuntu, as the update manager just pops up in the Unity launcher there.

tags: added: xubuntu
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the-unconventional (the-unconventional-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This only seems to happen when software-properties-gtk is set to automatically download the updates.

summary: - Update icon and notification disappear after a few seconds
+ Update icon and notification disappear after a few seconds when updates
+ are downloaded automatically
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Glenn Brumfield (brumfield-glenn) wrote :

Happens in Xubuntu 12.04 whenever an auto-update is available. Icon & notification bubble appear, display for about 20 - 30 seconds then disappear. After about 5 minutes, icon & notification reappear then notification times out leaving icon in taskbar.

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