On 5/13/2014 6:40 PM, brendanperrine wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2014 17:39:52 -0400
Dale Visser <dale.vis...@live.com> wrote:
I may be seeing this as well on my two Lubuntu 14.04
Also I think this may be a related issue but if I do update and then have a
kernel update then the reminder to restart your computer does not come up.
OK, I found out that the first problem is that update-notifier is
supposed to launch from a shortcut in /etc/xdg/autostart -- the same
location that nm-applet is supposed to launch from. But it is well
known that nm-applet fails to launch from that location under 14.04. In
fact, nothing will. See Bug 1309698 - Lubuntu does not handle
/etc/xdg/autostart
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxsession/+bug/1309698>
If one employs the same workaround as for nm-applet, manually adding
update-notifier as an autostart app, then update-notifier appears as a
running process.
*BUT*, I have not yet been prompted to install any updates. I
understand that update-notifier is supposed to poll for updates every
180 seconds. So whatever was at work in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1046563
(starting with 12.04) seems to be failing here still.
Some of the Ubuntu-related servers seemed to be out of commission
earlier today, so maybe that comes into play also.
I see that some people have gotten results with update-notifier. I
don't know what may be different here. This is on a laptop, so some
default settings may be different than for desktops.
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On another point from my original post -- the difference between updates
offered by update-manager vs. apt-get -- I found out that update-manager
respects the Phased Updates mentioned earlier by Dale Visser, and
apt-get (and Synaptic) do not. They will offer everything that has been
released. See bapoumba's post at Software Updater not notifying
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2222325&page=5&p=13018620#post13018620>,
though I don't know which of his three references he is drawing that from.
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@BrendanP: update-notifier is used to issue the reboot reminder, so that
is a related issue.
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