For nm-applet, Fix #1 at
http://www.webupd8.org/2014/04/fix-lubuntu-1404-network-manager.html
worked for me, and Fix #2 slipped from memory.
But for this problem with update-notifier, *neither* Fix results in
notification of updates.
Oddly, in /etc/xdg/autostart/update-notifier.desktop, neither
Exec=dbus-launch update-notifier
nor
Exec="dbus-launch update-notifier"
results in a running update-notifier process.
If from the terminal I run
$ dbus-launch update-notifier
that produces a running process, but as in the previous post, I get no
actual notification of updates.
Which brings me back around to my current working theory that bug
1046563 (concerning update-notifier) really is distinct from the
nm-applet bug.
On 5/14/2014 5:36 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Hi John (and everyone else),
This issue is known about and is on the release notes[1]. It never
surprises me that people never read them :) If you are affected,
simply log onto the bug and click 'Affects Me', this way you will get
updates as the bug progresses. Rest assured, Julien is on the case
(look at the most recent posts).
Regards,
Phill.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/Lubuntu#Applications
On 14 May 2014 22:22, John Hupp <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 5/13/2014 6:40 PM, brendanperrine wrote:
On Tue, 13 May 2014 17:39:52 -0400
Dale Visser<[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
I may be seeing this as well on my two Lubuntu 14.04
Also I think this may be a related issue but if I do update and then have a
kernel update then the reminder to restart your computer does not come up.
OK, I found out that the first problem is that update-notifier is
supposed to launch from a shortcut in /etc/xdg/autostart -- the
same location that nm-applet is supposed to launch from. But it
is well known that nm-applet fails to launch from that location
under 14.04. In fact, nothing will. See Bug 1309698 - Lubuntu
does not handle /etc/xdg/autostart
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxsession/+bug/1309698>
If one employs the same workaround as for nm-applet, manually
adding update-notifier as an autostart app, then update-notifier
appears as a running process.
*BUT*, I have not yet been prompted to install any updates. I
understand that update-notifier is supposed to poll for updates
every 180 seconds. So whatever was at work in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1046563
(starting with 12.04) seems to be failing here still.
Some of the Ubuntu-related servers seemed to be out of commission
earlier today, so maybe that comes into play also.
I see that some people have gotten results with update-notifier.
I don't know what may be different here. This is on a laptop, so
some default settings may be different than for desktops.
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On another point from my original post -- the difference between
updates offered by update-manager vs. apt-get -- I found out that
update-manager respects the Phased Updates mentioned earlier by
Dale Visser, and apt-get (and Synaptic) do not. They will offer
everything that has been released. See bapoumba's post at
Software Updater not notifying
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2222325&page=5&p=13018620#post13018620>,
though I don't know which of his three references he is drawing
that from.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
@BrendanP: update-notifier is used to issue the reboot reminder,
so that is a related issue.
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