Comment 7 for bug 273184

I am also affected by this bug. It isn't the first time it happened, but today I decided to report it. I am not able to reproduce it precisely. This time I noticed that the first time I pressed the Check button the field's heights were correct. After pressing the Check button another time, I noticed that only the lower items in the listing were stretched, as shown in the attached screenshot:

"update_manager_bug1" shows the upper part of the list, which has the firs two item displayed correctly; starting from the third item the height is lowered.

"update_manager_bug2" shows the lower part of the list.

After checking a third time, every item was stretched, as shown in the screenshot "update_manager_bug-after_checking_again".

Closing and reopening the Update Manager window partially solves the issue. I tried every combination: closing and reopening the window, closing and opening the Descriptions of the update, and checking again many times. Sometimes the list is displayed correctly, sometimes only the first items are displayed correctly, and sometimes every item is stretched.

kernel: 2.6.27-7-generic
Ubuntu: Intrepid(8.10)
Gnome: 2.24.1
update-manager: 1:0.93.34