Comment 6 for bug 12251

(In reply to comment #5)
> Thanks for the additional information. Can you please tell me if the file:
> /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp has about the right time (the time your
> last upgrade was performed)?

This file is empty, totally blank when openened with nano
>
> And if update-notifier _always_ fails to update itself or only sometimes (e.g.
> can you reproduce the behaviour)? I can't reproduce it here, for me it seems to
> work (with a up-to-date hoary) so I'm very interessted in any hints how I might
> be able to reproduce the problem.

This happens always
>
> What is the output of /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check?
>

hidde@system:~ $ ls /var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp
/var/lib/update-notifier/dpkg-run-stamp
hidde@system:~ $ /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
hidde@system:~ $ sudo /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
hidde@system:~ $