update manager says updated when no net access

[Caroline Ford]

Current Hardy (alpha 3+updates)

Update manager says "Your system is up to date. The package system was last updated less than one hour ago". This was on a laptop that didn't have internet access when update manager was doing it's daily check. Therefore the message is misleading - it should only say the system is up to date IF it has successfully connected to the servers. If it hasn't it should keep the message as "last updated 12 hours ago" or whatever. Or maybe a message that the daily check failed.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This problem is fixed in bzr and will be part of the next upload. It was indeed counting unsuccessful updates. But it dosn't anymore (in bzr).

Cheers,
 Michael

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.87.5

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update-manager (1:0.87.5) hardy; urgency=low

  * UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py:
    - use /var/lib/apt/periodic/update-success-stamp for the
      calculation when the last update was performed (LP: #185894)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - if the upgrade can not be calculated in partial upgrade mode,
      do not recommend reporting a bug (most likely transient anyway)
  * DistUpgradeView/DistUpgradeViewText.py:
    - make the restart required question more clear (LP: #155554)
  * UpdateManager/Core/DistUpgradeFetcherCore.py:
    - tidy up output when show authentication message
  * data/update-manager.8:
    - man page fixes (LP: #185615)
  * update-manager:
    - run gtk.init_check() to catch errors when DISPLAY is not
      set (pygtk does not do that automatically)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:11:45 +0100