the update notifier does not show in panel

[John Vivirito]

since the upgrade for the gnome panel crashing the update icon does not sit on panel anymore. Im assuming this is known already because all the other graphical items are gone like the log-out. i just wanted to let you know incase you didnt know.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

This issue is in Dapper. sorry forgot that part.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. Is update-notifier installed/running with your session?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

the ps aux command shows update-notifier as a running process. it also shows
it using 19.6 % cpu.

On 1/22/06, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Public bug report changed:
> https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29295
>
> Comment:
> Thanks for your bug. Is update-notifier installed/running with your
> session?
>

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

well the gnome panel no longer crashes but the update-notifier still doesnt show in the panel.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Do you see other tray icon? E.g. rhythmbox, gnome-power-manager, quodlibet? Or is it only update-notifier that is not showing up?

thanks,
 Michael

[Wouter den Haan (wouterdenhaan)]

Same problem here. update-notifier is running, but nothing in the panel. Other applications _do_ appear in the panel.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Could you please tell me the output of:
$ /var/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
?

Thanks,
 Michael

[Wouter den Haan (wouterdenhaan)]

wouter@ubuntu:~$ /var/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
bash: /var/lib/update-notifier/apt-check: No such file or directory

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what about /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check ?

[Wouter den Haan (wouterdenhaan)]

wouter@ubuntu:~$ /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
None
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check", line 40, in ?
    cache = apt_pkg.GetCache()
SystemError: E:Opening /etc/apt/sources.list - ifstream::ifstream (13 Permission denied), E:The list of sources could not be read.

[Wouter den Haan (wouterdenhaan)]

maybe interesting?

wouter@ubuntu:~$ ls -al /etc/apt/sources.list
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 1410 2006-04-01 21:27 /etc/apt/sources.list

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Interessting, did you changed the permissions yourself? Or did that just "happen" somehow?

Please run:
$ sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/sources.list

to fix the permissions. This should make update-notifier work again :)

Cheers,
 Michael

[Wouter den Haan (wouterdenhaan)]

I cannot remember setting the permissions manually. And i cannot think of a
reason for doing so.

Could this be a configuration left-over from hoary or breezy?

[Wouter den Haan (wouterdenhaan)]

And btw. The update notifier works again.

[Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis)]

AFAIK no version of any apt package sets this to rw-rw---- Therefor, and
since update-notifier works again I'm inclined to reject this bug. Would
you agree with that?

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

mine has been working a while since the update-notifier upgrade a while back i didnt comment on it due to others had issues with it.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for verifiying the issue. I added some code to update-notifier to better detect situations like this and report appropriate erros to the user.

[pop (stephane-popinet)]

I have the same problem, update-notifier is running, the permissions for sources.list are correct i.e.

$ ls -l -h /etc/apt/sources.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.9K 2006-06-04 18:00 /etc/apt/sources.list

update-notifier shows up in panel for other admin users (created after an upgrade from breezy to dapper) but does not show up for my account (created before the upgrade).

So I don't think this bug is closed...

cheers

Stephane