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update-manager package

Software updater lists NO software to be updated but says "updated software is available"

Bug #1799833 reported by Simon Lambourn on 2018-10-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1072136: [FFe] After doing updates, update manager propose to install an empty list of updates. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Software updater pops up (as normal) saying "updated software is available for this computer", but the "Details of Updates" section is blank. See screenshot attached.

This is possibly a security risk as if I press "Install Now", I will be installing unknown packages, which I am not keen to do.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: update-manager 1:18.04.11.5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-38.41-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Aptdaemon:

Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 24 23:21:54 2018
GsettingsChanges:
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'569'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'815'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'int64 1540418678'
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-02 (175 days ago)

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Simon Lambourn (simon-lambourn-o) wrote on 2018-10-24:

Screenshot of Software Updater window with no s/w updates listed Edit (82.4 KiB, image/png)
CurrentDmesg.txt.txt Edit (69.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (16.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt.txt Edit (11.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt.txt Edit (63.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (853 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (115 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Simon Lambourn (simon-lambourn-o) wrote on 2018-10-24:

PS. I have subsequently updated using apt-get update && apt-get upgrade. This was the output:

"Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libdbusmenu-gtk4 linux-headers-4.15.0-34 linux-headers-4.15.0-34-generic
  linux-image-4.15.0-34-generic linux-modules-4.15.0-34-generic linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-34-generic
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  chromium-browser chromium-browser-l10n chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra firefox firefox-locale-en gdm3
  gir1.2-gdm-1.0 gnome-software gnome-software-common gnome-software-plugin-snap libgdm1
  libmysqlclient20 libnautilus-extension1a light-themes man-db mysql-client-5.7 mysql-client-core-5.7
  mysql-server-5.7 mysql-server-core-5.7 nautilus nautilus-data python3-update-manager tzdata
  ubuntu-artwork ubuntu-mono ubuntu-software unattended-upgrades update-manager update-manager-core
29 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 136 MB of archives."

Leonidas S. Barbosa (leosilvab) on 2018-10-25

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Private Security → Public

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote on 2018-10-25:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1072136, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.