I'm willing to try debugging this, but any ideas on what I should look at? Here were some places I started with (based on the earlier posts in this thread).
I'm using 10.04, and when I run update-manager manually, it lists a whole bunch of updates - it just never pops up (nor do I see any tray icon). $ ls -l /etc/cron.daily/apt -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15690 2010-04-15 01:27 /etc/cron.daily/apt $ sudo aptitude full-upgrade [sudo] password for yang: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-headers-2.6.32-24{a} linux-headers-2.6.32-24-generic{a} linux-image-2.6.32-24-generic The following packages will be upgraded: apt apt-transport-https apt-utils at-spi base-files dpkg empathy empathy-common evince gdm gnome-orca gnome-panel gnome-panel-data google-chrome-stable grub-common grub-pc gwibber gwibber-service hudson hunspell-en-ca ia32-libs icedtea-6-jre-cacao icedtea6-plugin libatspi1.0-0 libdbusmenu-glib1 libdbusmenu-gtk1 libevdocument2 libevview2 libnautilus-extension1 libnotify1 libpanel-applet2-0 libusb-0.1-4 linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic linux-libc-dev myspell-en-gb myspell-en-za nautilus nautilus-data nautilus-sendto-empathy nginx openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us python-pyatspi python-ubuntuone-client software-center ubuntu-system-service ubuntuone-client ubuntuone-client-gnome ureadahead 54 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 42.8MB/189MB of archives. After unpacking 216MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n Abort. $ ps `pgrep -f update-` PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 20970 ? S 0:00 update-notifier $ date Wed Aug 4 17:41:06 PDT 2010 $ ls -l -h /var/lib/apt/periodic/ total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-08-04 07:47 download-upgradeable-stamp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-08-04 07:44 update-stamp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-08-04 07:44 update-success-stamp -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-08-04 07:47 upgrade-stamp -- update-manager doesn't show updates, even after 1 week https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/356152 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