Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-notifier
I have two machines with this problem. This shouldn't be happening, so
I am calling it a bug.
One of them is running the desktop version of Ubuntu 9.04. I have set
it in the Software Sources admin applet to "Check for updates daily" and
"Download all updates in the background." It never offers updates to
me. But if I go to the terminal and "sudo aptitude update," updates are
offered via the GUI right away. So, it seems that whatever process in
the background is supposed to check for updates periodically is not
working.
Another machine running the server version of Ubuntu 9.04. I have it
set to check daily install security updates automatically. It also
never finds updates automatically --- if I connect via SSH it tells me 0
updated packages are available, and security updates are never installed
automatically. I have to make sure to connect and install updates
manually from time to time.
Please let me know what I can do to help track this problem down.
Disclaimers:
Both of these machines were upgraded from Ubuntu 8.10. Both of them
properly checked for updates before the upgrade to 9.04, and have been
displaying this problem since the very moment 9.04 was released.
I am aware of the new update notification system in 9.04 (security
updates daily, other updates weekly, no tray icon, etc.). This is not
the problem here. I left town for two weeks and left both machines on
to check, neither of them offered any updates automatically, but as soon
as I returned and did a "sudo aptitude update" there were 60+ updates
available on the desktop machine, many of them security updates that
should have been detected by the daily check.
I'm not sure if the method used to upgrade from 8.10 would make any
difference, but it is the only thing I can think of that is different
between my machines. What I mean is, these two machines that do not
check for updates automatically were updated from 8.10 with the command-
line method ("do-release-upgrade"). I have a third machine upgraded
with the GUI method and it is handling automatic update checking
beautifully.
Thank you!
** Affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Ubuntu does not automatically check for updates, even when set to
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