Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-notifier
Running Ubuntu 10.4 updated to yesterday
$ dir /usr/lib/update-notifier/
total 24K
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2.4K 2010-04-13 23:52 apt-cdrom-check
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2010-05-04 23:00 apt-check -> apt_check.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6.5K 2010-04-13 23:52 apt_check.py
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 351 2010-04-13 23:52 cddistupgrader
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 314 2010-04-13 23:52 update-motd-cpu-checker
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 115 2010-04-13 23:52 update-motd-reboot-required
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 2010-07-10 05:00 update-motd-updates-available
$
As you can see, update-motd-updates-available is empty (zero bytes)
I have tried reinstalling update-notifier to no avail.
This file is called by update-motd, and returns nothing, even when I know there
are upgrades pending.
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
$ apt-cache policy update-notifier
update-notifier:
Installed: 0.99.3
Candidate: 0.99.3
Version table:
*** 0.99.3 0
500 http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: update-notifier 0.99.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.39-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 595628f94a6a604fb25b23cefa82d968
CheckboxSystem: d8615e150f651eff2296bf3237fe3f7c
Date: Tue Aug 17 09:27:01 2010
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=en_DK.utf8
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-notifier
** Affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid
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file update-motd-updates-available is empty
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619052
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