false positive regarding update just after an automaticaly warned update
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
My OS: Ubuntu Edgy Eft RC (I hope its RC yet, last updated today (24 October 2006). I used to use Ubuntu 6.06 and had 6.10 via Web upgrade.
Seems to be an update-manager and/or Synaptic issue
The problem is as follows:
When I am warned about the updates automatically by means of that orange button appearing on the uppermost Gnome panel, I click on it and proceed the update. At the beginning the orange warning button warned me that there are 1 updates to be installed. (This was today's case: just something like ubuntu-docs.) After the installation successfully done, that update window refreshes itself in some way as usual. After that, the same window (Re-translating the title of the window from Turkish to English: Software Updates, You can install 3 updates, Distribution updates) tells and advices me to install some more updates. How and why did they appear? Below are the list of software automatically checked and asking me to be installed:
e2fsprogs
From version 1.39-1 to 1.39-1
initscripts
From version 2.86.ds1-
volumeid
From version 093-0ubuntu18 to 093-0ubuntu18
As its obvious, each of them have the same version codes regarding "from" and "to" info.
And what's more: Below of that window there is a section for more info on the to-be-updated software. For those three checked/proposed to-be-installed software, that window's "changes and update info" section's "changes" tab states (when you select any of them by clicking on) -again re-translating from Turkish- as follows:
"The list of the changes is not accessible"
On that update info window, there are some more software listed but they are not checked/proposed to be installed. If it may be useful, these are;
hpijs, python-adns, python-
For those automatically unchecked ones update version codes seem to be real, at least "from"s and "to"s codes are different and I can see some info on "changes and update info" section "changes" tab when I click on any of them.
Up to this point I doubt that those update offers are not "valid" in some way. To test it, I close that window without installing those "updates", open Synaptic and ask for choosing "all changes" without refreshing it, Synaptic still offers me those three:
e2fsprogs
initscripts
volumeid
I say "cancel" and then refresh Synaptic. It does so. After all package info are downloaded, I again say "select all updates". Result: No updates to be applied available!
What expected: No more update warning after all offered by that orange button are installed. If -for some reason- there are really more updates, those should be seen after refreshing Synaptic, as well.
Reproducable or not: I don't know what to do in order to reproduce the situation, but as I remember I had the same issue some time ago with again Edgy Eft but before RC, during the last phases of Beta.
Changed in update-manager: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
After five months and many standard updates the situation is still the same. Those 3 false offer appears all the time after updates. The bug report seems to be "unconfirmed" at the moment; if there's some more info needed, i can send them as well.