notifier is very annoying

[Seth Arnold]

My update notifier keeps popping up often, once an hour or so, and it pulses every five seconds for thirty seconds or something. It's insanely annoying, and worse yet, wrong:

$ sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
[sudo] password for sarnold:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

That was seconds after the update notifier finally went away.

I don't recall it being this annoying on 14.04 LTS.

Thanks

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: update-notifier 3.168
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon May 16 21:36:59 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-18 (1306 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-30 (16 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. What are you calling "pop-out" in that context? Could you make a screensot of the issue? Are you speaking about some specific UI or about the notifications "you have update availables" (that's a known gnome-software issue)

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

The indicator that pops up is an indicator of the style used for volume changes, network connection information, screen brightness, etc. in the upper right-hand corner of the screen.

It figures that it stops happening after I file a bug report. I should have filed the report sooner. :)

Thanks

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that sounds like bug #1580836