Public bug reported: My update notifier keeps popping up often, once an hour or so, and it pulses every five seconds for thirty seconds or something. It's insanely annoying, and worse yet, wrong:
$ sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade [sudo] password for sarnold: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. That was seconds after the update notifier finally went away. I don't recall it being this annoying on 14.04 LTS. Thanks ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: update-notifier 3.168 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-21.37-generic 4.4.6 Uname: Linux 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zcommon znvpair zavl ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Mon May 16 21:36:59 2016 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-18 (1306 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1) SourcePackage: update-notifier UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-30 (16 days ago) ** Affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582510 Title: notifier is very annoying To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1582510/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs