I briefly experienced the same problem, on Intrepid. There was only one package to be installed, and I clicked on the "Check" button, and it appeared after it checked the repos and found a few packages more. See the screenshot.
It happened only once and I took the screenshot. I closed Update Manager and restarted and everything was fine again. I cannot reproduce it, not even following the 5 steps above. ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M, fglrx driver. GTK+ widgets using the standard "Human" theme, font resolution set to 89 dpi. ** Attachment added: "Update Manager unreadable screenshot" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21473874/Screenshot-Update%20Manager.png -- update manager lines are unreadable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249335 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs