Some fresh experiences today:

I booted the laptop, manually ran just "update-notifier" from the terminal (and yes, I did forget to add " &"), and Software Updater appeared almost immediately to offer a big batch of updates.

Rather inexplicable, but running with it just to see what would happen, I rebooted without installing anything, added update-notifier to Default applications for LXSession: Autostart tab, and rebooted again. The update-notifier changelog indicates that it is supposed to poll every 180 seconds. For good measure I gave it 10 minutes, but Software Updater did not appear. I rebooted 10 times and waited 10 minutes each time, all with the same no-show results.

I also booted the desktop on which I installed 14.04 a couple days ago. I did not manually run update-notifier but instead set up the update-notifier workaround in Default applications for LXSession. I rebooted and *Software Updater almost immediately offered 140+ MB of updates*, which I installed.

Back on the laptop, I gave it an Ethernet connection and rebooted 5 more times, waiting 10 minutes each time. Still no updates offered.

I removed the update-notifier entry from Default applications for LXSession: Autostart, pulled the Ethernet plug, switched the WiFi back on, and rebooted. I ran "update-notifier &" from a terminal and waited 10 minutes. No results. I did this 5 times.

Then I did the same as above but ran "dbus-launch update-notifier &" instead. I did this 3 times with no results.

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The only hypothesis I can see from the above is that update-notifier/manager will offer the updates once (per day?), and if you don't install them it will not offer them again.

Could this be?


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