** Description changed: I am not a 100% sure if this is a problem caused by the "update-manager" package or "update-notifier" or unity. If needed I can reproduce this the next time there are updates available and report it to some other package or enhance this report. I have also used cli for some years so let me know if I can do anything else. I have also seen that there are several "popular bug reports" that look similar but I am going to go by the guideline that duplicate reports are not a bad thing and the developer knows better if it is a duplicate or not. I have had this bug for a while. I have checked and these are things that do not let me see the update manager window itself: * Click * Double click * Alt+tab (I can see the icon in the list) * I do not have second monitor attached. I have had it configured at some point in the past * It is not on any of the other workspaces I can also see the process in pstree output: | | | |-update-manager,16121 /usr/bin/update-manager --no-update --no-focus-on-map | | | | |-{update-manager},16128 | | | | `-{update-manager},16129 This might also be of interest: $> xwininfo -name 'Software Updater' xwininfo: Window id: 0x4e00008 "Software Updater" Absolute upper-left X: 610 Absolute upper-left Y: 302 Relative upper-left X: 610 Relative upper-left Y: 302 Width: 444 Height: 319 Depth: 24 Visual: 0x21 Visual Class: TrueColor Border width: 0 Class: InputOutput Colormap: 0x20 (installed) Bit Gravity State: NorthWestGravity Window Gravity State: NorthWestGravity Backing Store State: NotUseful Save Under State: no Map State: IsUnMapped Override Redirect State: no Corners: +610+302 -546+302 -546-279 +610-279 -geometry 444x319+610+302 ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: update-manager 1:0.196.12 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-40.69-generic 3.13.11.10 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-40-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5 Aptdaemon: Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Tue Dec 2 09:44:35 2014 DpkgHistoryLog.txt: DpkgTerminalLog.txt: ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager GsettingsChanges: b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'876' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'1535' b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1417510549' InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-01-03 (698 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1) InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.4 PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: update-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-07 (116 days ago) Running `sudo apt-get update` does not solve the problem. I can also open "software centre" and install software from cli. I tried to start update-manager from cli without closeing anything but this also does not help. It also doesn't give any output. + + Locking and unlocking to launcher did not do anything. + + I can choose Install all available updates from the right-click menu and + this works. Process called "update-apt-xapi" is stared and updates are + installed. Also the package manager is locked for that time. (can not + update package index at the same time). + + Quit option from the right click menu works. After quitting I can start + the update-manager from cli and now it is fully functional.
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