Digging a little further, it appears that it does work as expected if you restart update-notifier-kde and there are pending updates available.
It only appears to fail if there are updates discovered after update- notifier-kde is already up and running. This should help narrow down the problem location. -- update notifier doesn't list how many packages needs updating https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282676 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs