By design, only one update manager can run at a time. Even though the icon is not there in every account, you can still launch mintUpdate manually from the menus. Also the update icon would be useless in a guest account as it does not have sudo permissions.
** Changed in: linuxmint Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/729490 Title: The update icon missing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/729490/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs