Update-manager is being marked as inaccessible

[Sense Egbert Hofstede]

Binary package hint: update-manager

When you start up you see the grey icon of the update-manager in the system tray saying that another installation program is running. However, you can start the program by clicking on the icon. Update-manager will appear, the icon will become orange and the update(s) will be calculated. I don't know if this happens too when there aren't any updates.
The icon disappears after your system is updated, but I can remember a case where the icon was also grey when there wasn't anything running that uses dpkg. Maybe it happens when new updates have arrived.

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
Up-to-date, amd64

[Matthew Woerly (nattgew)]

I have noticed this for a long time that if you run apt-get update, the icon will turn grey, but whet apt-get is done, the icon will remain grey for a while before finally disappearing or indicating updates. Is this what you mean?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

When the icon is grey, could you please check if another apt-get is running in the background? Its most likely performing a update in the background and it take a bit until it realizes that the update was finished.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

It could be apt-get update of course. Anyway, it's gone now, so this bug can probably be considered as invalid unless someone else is still experiencing this issue.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for following up. I'm closing this report due to your last comment. Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.