Software Updater is sometimes blank when there are ONLY phased updates and auto-removable kernels
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Xenial |
Confirmed
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Confirmed
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Cosmic |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Environment:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Release: 18.04
$ apt-cache policy update-manager
update-manager:
Installed: 1:18.04.11.3
Candidate: 1:18.04.11.3
Version table:
*** 1:18.04.11.3 500
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1:18.04.11 500
500 http://
500 http://
Description:
When Software Updater finds ONLY phased updates and auto-removable kernels, sometimes it comes up blank. i.e. it says "Updated software is available for this computer", but the list of available updates contains nothing. It does say the size of how much data will be downloaded. But no details of what this download is or what changes will be made if I click Install Now.
This occurred most recently on 21 July, when I had one auto-removable kernel and the following updates were available in principle -
$ apt list --upgradable
Listing... Done
libnss-
libpam-
libsystemd0/
libudev1/
systemd/
systemd-
udev/bionic-updates 237-3ubuntu10.2 amd64 [upgradable from: 237-3ubuntu10]
Expected results:
Depending on whether I "should" receive the avilable phased updates or not, I would have expected that...
A) ... if I should have received some of the available phased updates, Software Updater should present them to me, and offer to remove the auto-removable kernels.
B) ... if I should not receive any of the available phased updates yet, Software Updater should either
i) only offer to remove the auto-removable kernels, OR
ii) just say "The software on this computer is up to date."
ubuntuforums thread (which includes a screenshot):
https:/
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
tags: | removed: rls-cc-incoming |
tags: | added: id-5b59f775168877b93e7f264b |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Xenial): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Cosmic): | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
assignee: | nobody → Balint Reczey (rbalint) |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Cosmic): | |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
status: | In Progress → Confirmed |
assignee: | Balint Reczey (rbalint) → nobody |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu Cosmic): | |
assignee: | Balint Reczey (rbalint) → nobody |
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I've seen the same behaviour on my 18.04 system. It didn't use to show the update-manager window in older releases when only phased updates were available so it might be the removable kernels which are triggering it. (Or a combination of the two?)
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