Thanks for your report. This has been fixed and changed to: "An error occurred, please run Package Manager from the right-click menu or apt-get in a terminal to see what is wrong."
** Changed in: update-notifier (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: update-manager => update-notifier Status: New => Fix Released -- "Error communicating with the backend" could be more understandable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185428 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