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update-notifier package

  1. Bug #1146170
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1146170

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote :

I looked at the script. It appears to be a simple race in case of simultaneous logins. Changing

    echo "" > $stamp
    /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check --human-readable >> $stamp
    echo "" >> $stamp

to

    { echo ""; /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check --human-readable; echo ""; } > $stamp

might be enough to make it go away.