** Description changed: The system seems to go slow when updates are available for download, but - haven't been downloaded and installed yet - PC been on continuously for - over 2 to 5 days + haven't been downloaded and installed yet - especially if the PC has + been on continuously for over 2 to 5 days - Is the system going into some sort of loop while to wait for something - which doesn't happen, and it spends a lot of time waiting there. + Is the system going into some sort of loop while it waits for something + which doesn't happen, and then it spends a lot of time waiting there. - Maybe waiting for a non-existant confirmation to download. + Maybe waiting for a non-existent confirmation to download. + + Sometimes the system will completely stop. so then a hardware reset is used to restart it. the reboot then shows that icon for updates, which may not have been visible just before the hang. + This suggests that the update system causes the problem at some stage through the notification process before the icon gets displayed. the current settings on this pc are notify of downloads, but not to even start downloading them without permission. + + In just about all cases there are numerous windows and tabs of Firefox + open, and often Thunderbird email is open. Feisty fawn version. Note down the bottom is the option to flag this as being a security vulnerability. It might be handy to have a similar flag to highlight the report as a "stability vulnerability".
** Tags added: crash hang update -- System goes slow when updates are available https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/241873 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
