mintupdate isn't showing pending updates

[Marc-André Laverdière]

1) The version and edition of Linux Mint you are using (if you are not sure, open a terminal and run "mintwelcome").
I am using Linux Mint 14 KDE 64-bit.
2) What you did for the problem to happen, and how to reproduce it.
Opened mintupdate, pressed Refresh.
In a separate window, run sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade
3) What happened.
Mintupdate says "Your system is up to date"
apt-get shows a list of packages to be updated
4) What you expected to happen instead.
Mintupdate should show the same list of packages to update.
5) If the problem happened once, sometimes, or always.
Some updates do come through - I had some updates this week.

I tried reloading from both apt-get and mintupdate, and no change occurs. Even after quitting Mintupdate and restarting the application, the output is the same.

[alopex (alopex)]

I can confirm this bug under Mint 14 64Bit Cinnamon. There hasn't been shown a single update in the panel icon for several weeks. When I start mintUpdate myself, the list is finally updated and updates are listed. In my opinion, this is a severe bug, letting people think, their system is up to date, when it's actually not at all. The updater is supposed to update every 15 minutes according to the default setting in the mintUpdate preferences...

[Jim Coleman (midnightcommander)]

I saw this for the first time about a week ago. Patches were showing up in the Description window just fine then suddenly were no longer visible. The only clue that there were updates to be applied was in the lower panel where "Your system is up to date" resides. That panel would let you know updates were available and clicking "Install Updates" would start the download. One would have to pay very close attention to see that updates were available.

[cne007 (lepelerin2002)]

I have a similar issue, linuxMint, 32bit 14 Mate. (3.5.0-40-generic #62-Ubuntu SMP, i686)

On a terminal apt-get tells me I have update. The mintupdate manager tells me I have update available but does not display them in the description tab. At the bottom of the update manager window I do have "you have update available for your system". If I click apply update, they are downloaded and installed. However not knowing from the update manager at first which update will be applied is not very fun. I do use apt-get instead. This problem appeared recently. No major changes to my machine except the regular updates.

[sparks1154 (sparks1154)]

This appears to be a problem with the Mint updater package. When the Ubuntu update package update-manager is installed it correctly identifies all of the packages that apt-get identifies. When the Mint updater settings are set for level 1-3 updates (default setting), it will not show all of the updates that apt-get will show. If the Mint updater setting is modified to include level 4 & 5 updates then it appears to show all of the missing updates. I don't know if this is an important security issue or how important the level 4 & 5 updates are.