Comment 4 for bug 47533

Michael Vogt wrote:
> Thanks for your bugreport.
>
> Could you please tell me what the output of:
> $ /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
> is?

Hi Michael,

Here is what I get:

steph@pukeko:~$ /usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0steph@pukeko:~$

which I imagine means that everything is ok. Which is not surprising
given that apt-get, synaptic etc... work fine on my system.

Since posting the bug report, I have fixed the problem using the "brute
force" technique of deleting my account, recreating it and copying my
files (but not the gnome and other desktop config files etc...) Needless
to say I wouldn't like to have to do this after each distribution upgrade...

My guess is that for some reason, the config for the gnome notification
area (wherever that is) got changed somehow and by default then never
allowed notifications from the update-notifier to appear. Does this make
sense?

cheers

Stephane