Update manager does not automatically notify user of critical updates

[Konstantin Tchernov]

Binary package hint: update-manager

The default settings for update manager on a fresh Lucid install mean that I get no security update notifications. Starting the update manager manually shows up a list of updates, but there is no automatic notification of any sort. So a user who does not know to manually check for updates, or to manually enable the update notifier icon, will not get security updates!

Somewhere I read that in Lucid the update manager should come up after login if there are updates available - this most certainly does not happen on any of my machines running fresh Lucid installs with default settings.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.134.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed May 19 22:37:39 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_NZ.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager