On Sat, 17 May 2014 14:37:38 -0400 John Hupp <[email protected]> wrote:
> Some fresh experiences today: > > I booted the laptop, manually ran just "update-notifier" from the > terminal (and yes, I did forget to add " &"), and Software Updater > appeared almost immediately to offer a big batch of updates. > > Rather inexplicable, but running with it just to see what would happen, > I rebooted without installing anything, added update-notifier to Default > applications for LXSession: Autostart tab, and rebooted again. The > update-notifier changelog indicates that it is supposed to poll every > 180 seconds. For good measure I gave it 10 minutes, but Software > Updater did not appear. I rebooted 10 times and waited 10 minutes each > time, all with the same no-show results. > > I also booted the desktop on which I installed 14.04 a couple days ago. > I did not manually run update-notifier but instead set up the > update-notifier workaround in Default applications for LXSession. I > rebooted and *Software Updater almost immediately offered 140+ MB of > updates*, which I installed. > > Back on the laptop, I gave it an Ethernet connection and rebooted 5 more > times, waiting 10 minutes each time. Still no updates offered. > > I removed the update-notifier entry from Default applications for > LXSession: Autostart, pulled the Ethernet plug, switched the WiFi back > on, and rebooted. I ran "update-notifier &" from a terminal and waited > 10 minutes. No results. I did this 5 times. > > Then I did the same as above but ran "dbus-launch update-notifier &" > instead. I did this 3 times with no results. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > The only hypothesis I can see from the above is that > update-notifier/manager will offer the updates once (per day?), and if > you don't install them it will not offer them again. > > Could this be? > > I think in software and updates from the menu is set to check daily by default. -- ianorlin aka Brendan Perrine <[email protected]> -- Lubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
