9

Today I received an update notification for three updates but update manager doesn't say what updates are they.

No details of updates

Does anyone have a clue what this is about? How am I to check what is to be updated?

karel
  • 114,770
To Do
  • 15,502
  • What does the terminal say? sudo apt-get upgrade – wojox Aug 12 '13 at 14:18
  • Few days back i got the same error, so i did upgrade from terminal ( sudo apt-get upgrade ). – Qasim Aug 12 '13 at 17:16
  • 2
    Do we have a bug report for this? If not, someone should create one. I didn't think to capture a screen shot, but you have one here that would be good to include in a bug report. – Enterprise Aug 12 '13 at 17:55
  • 1
    I just opened Bug #1211511 for this issue. I was able to grab a an apport log and a screenshot of the problem. Please confirm this bug if you are impacted by it: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1211511 – Enterprise Aug 12 '13 at 21:12
  • Could it be that the upgrade-able packages are libraries and other "system" packages, and therefore hidden? (this could be done to confuse the user less about the updated packages, (s)he would probably only care if "Firefox" is updated?) – Lekensteyn Aug 13 '13 at 20:50
  • The same thing here and it only started happening in the last couple of weeks. – Vitaly Aug 16 '13 at 16:25

3 Answers3

6

I was getting this problem after upgrading to 18.04. Preparatory to sudo apt-get upgrade as noted above, I did

 sudo apt autoremove

That resolved the problem for me and 'revealed' what updates were available for download. Almost half-a-gig clogging up the works.

abu_bua
  • 10,783
armipunk
  • 181
4

Don’t worry! I have been through this. To clarify that I did that in terminal with

sudo apt-get upgrade

and it listed the outputs. Only 3 upgrades will be there if I remember correctly.

David Foerster
  • 36,264
  • 56
  • 94
  • 147
Raja G
  • 102,391
  • 106
  • 255
  • 328
2

Check for an orphaned update-manager process that may be causing the empty Software Updater window.

pgrep -fl update-manager

You can kill all update-manager processes with:

pkill -f update-manager

Run apt list --upgradable in the terminal to see a list of packages that can be upgraded.

karel
  • 114,770