Binary package hint: update-manager
Ubuntu 10.10 update-manager can get into a state which will not show theUbuntu 10.10 update-manager can get into a state which will not show the progress windows for downloading, or for applying changes. The update completes and is normal otherwise. This state will presist across reboots. Running update-manager from a termninal with sudo will always
make the progress windows appear, and then the next gui invocation of update-manager will have the progress windows, but the next login/reboot, the windows may be absent from the gui again. The check button from the sudo invocation is enough to fix the problem for the next gui invocation.
I believe, but am not sure the initial problem was caused by invoking update-manager from a non-sudo user (even just to check, since the installation could not work). I had two identical thumbdrives, with nothing but updates applied to the default applications, one had the problem, and the other did not.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: update-manager 1:0.142.22
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 2 22:30:58 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Also affects natty (may have brought the bug across from maverick, since I updated)