Discovered today that the thread I posted to on prior days was a duplicate to this thread, so now I'm updating here. This bug with my system first appeared August 9th. Yesterday I decided to go ahead and install whatever updates were there (even though I could not see 'what' the updates were since the box was blank). This was what occurred yesterday with my system while running the updater:
16.04.5 LTS xenial The 'software updater' continued to show only the blank white box, but indicated there was updates to install. I decided to go ahead and run it through the installation process. (See attached image). With the plain white box there was no way to see 'what' the updates would be. But, after selecting 'install', the Terminal Emulator opened and showed the installation progress as it normally does. When the update was complete the message, "The Software on This Computer is Up to Date" also came up as normal. So the only bug appears to be just the blank white box not revealing 'what' the updates are. Now for today: I just ran the Software Updater and it is now functioning properly - showing what the available updates are in the box as it should - not just a blank white box as before, so for me it seems to have been resolved - at least for now! Thanks! ** Attachment added: "Software Updater Blank White Box" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1783023/+attachment/5175536/+files/InstallerBroke.png -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783023 Title: Software Updater is sometimes blank when there are ONLY phased updates and auto-removable kernels To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1783023/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
