Update-manager tray icon incorrectly complains about stale package information
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-notifier (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Update-manager sometimes pops up a tray icon complaining that I need to update (I haven't figured out how it decides when to complain). Update-manager itself displays the message, "The package information was last updated n days ago" where today n is 17. Actually, I've updated repeatedly today.
I've traced this to /usr/lib/
I don't know whether this is problem with update-manager, or with apt. I've tried updating both via update-manager and aptitude. That file simply doesn't get touched.
Thanks for your bugreport.
Could you please give me the full terminal output of: apt/periodic/
$ sudo apt-get update
$ echo $?
$ ls -l /var/lib/
The way its implemented is that if one repository fails to update then the file is not touched. The output of the commands hopefully gives us a idea what goes wrong.
Thanks,
Michael