Ubuntu
update-manager package

software updater asks for confirming updates, does not show packages

Bug #1783554 reported by Martin Zbořil on 2018-07-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1072136: [FFe] After doing updates, update manager propose to install an empty list of updates. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

with this attitude you can install the updates without asking... still I would be feeling better knowing what is happening.
please see attached screenshot showing the software updater window asking for 54 MB worth of packages to download but does not list any of them.

I hope that points 1 and 2 are solved by ubuntu-bug,

3: expectations are to see what is requested to be updated

4: *nothing* is requested to be updated with 54 MB worth of download.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: update-manager 1:18.04.11.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Aptdaemon:

Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jul 25 14:19:10 2018
GsettingsChanges:
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'475'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'645'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'int64 1532520808'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-19 (36 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Martin Zbořil (buntubugzilla) wrote on 2018-07-25:

screenshot of software updater asking for 50MB of download and showing nothing Edit (205.3 KiB, image/png)
Dependencies.txt Edit (15.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgHistoryLog.txt.txt Edit (6.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DpkgTerminalLog.txt.txt Edit (35.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (310 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd) wrote on 2018-07-25:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1783023, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.