Ubuntu
update-notifier package

  1. Bug #390319
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 390319

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Aaron Kelley (aaronkelley) wrote :

Found the problem (I think).

The /etc/cron.daily/apt script, which I believe handles the automatic update setting, was not marked executable on either machine.

This reveals two problems:

 - /etc/cron.daily/apt lost its executable status during the do-release-upgrade process (I'm quite sure I didn't change the permissions on that file myself)
 - The GUI for configuring the automatic update interval should check this and warn you if this script is not executable! (Or just fix it itself.)