I can also confirm this issue. I booted (via USB) a hard drive with a full Jaunty install on it, that I hadn't booted in about 5 weeks... and the update-manager auto-launched to show me updates.... from five weeks ago! If that new auto-launching behavior is intended to keep people up to date, besides all the UI issues discussed in "that other" bug report, the thing should AT LEAST update the package cache first -- or at least, it should do so if the package cache is more than, say, 5 days old. I'd imagine that if I had actually tried to install those 5-week updates... more than half of them would have probably failed... due to no longer existing.
Easy way to reproduce this issue: install Ubuntu on some spare drive, even a small one... then leave it unused for, say, a month. Then boot the thing... and the same issue should arise. You can also do this for shorter times, such as a week, of course. -- Update Notifier doesn't automatically update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345951 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
