Your right - it's this HAL error message. Problem is I (and a normal user) would probably not make the connection between this error message and update-notifier ;)
Bugnumber is 66144 -- notifier is not shown anymore https://launchpad.net/bugs/66439 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs