Ubuntu MATE 24.04 Updates available (70Mb) null description

[lauricat]

Booted my 24.04 Ubuntu MATE Desktop on my PC. PC booted up as normal.

After 5 minutes, clicked 'System' > 'Administrator' > 'Software Updater'.

This opened as normal, and then 'Checking for updates' is shown, then after a short amount of time, indicated is:

'Updated Software is available for this Computer. Do you want to install it now?

'Details' is clicked.

Underneath 'details of updates' - 70.1MB will be Downloaded.

But blank/nothing is shown underneath 'details of updates'.

If 'Install now' is clicked. a screen very quickly is shown 'waiting for authorization' then 'updating Snaps'.

You then return to 'Updated Software is available for this Computer. Do you want to install it now?

and so on in a loop.

(Apologies if I have submitted this correctly - my first time!)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Could you share the output of

$ apt list --upgradable

Do you have any warning/error printed on the cmdline if you start update-manager from there?

[lauricat (lauricat)]

G'day Sebastien.

Thanks for looking at this for me.

First the output of apt list --upgradable
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xxx@xxx-System-Product-Name:~$ apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
xxx@xxx-System-Product-Name:~$

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Do you have any warning/error printed on the cmdline if you start update-manager from there?
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xxx@xxx-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for xxx:
Hit:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Get:2 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease [126 kB]
Hit:3 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease
Hit:4 https://dl.ui.com/unifi/debian unifi-8.1 InRelease
Hit:5 https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla InRelease
Hit:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Ign:7 https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu jammy/mongodb-org/7.0 InRelease
Get:8 https://packages.adoptium.net/artifactory/deb noble InRelease [7,504 B]
Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:10 https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu jammy/mongodb-org/7.0 Release
Get:12 https://esm.ubuntu.com/apps/ubuntu noble-apps-security InRelease [7,526 B]
Get:13 https://esm.ubuntu.com/infra/ubuntu noble-infra-security InRelease [7,462 B]
Fetched 149 kB in 2s (76.5 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

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Please let me know if I have done any of this incorrectly.

Thanks

lauricat

[lauricat (lauricat)]

Some further information.

System was checked for updates, manually, and 'Updated Software is available for this Computer. Do you want to install it now?

(A few updates were visible Mongo DB, and some other system files).

These updates were accepted and PC was updated.

Another check was then manually invoked.

Same thing as above occurred:

'Updated Software is available for this Computer. Do you want to install it now?

'Details' is clicked.

Underneath 'details of updates' - 70.1MB will be Downloaded.

But blank/nothing is shown underneath 'details of updates'.

If 'Install now' is clicked. a screen very quickly is shown 'waiting for authorization' then 'updating Snaps'.

You then return to 'Updated Software is available for this Computer. Do you want to install it now?

and so on in a loop.

Thanks again.