On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote: >> I am getting this message from the update notifier constantly in the >> notification area on my panel -- >> >> The update information is outdated. This may be caused by network >> problems. Please update manually by clicking on this icon and >> then selecting 'Check'. >> >> There seem to be no network problems. The message reappears after >> "checking" for upgrades with aptitude or apt-get. What is wrong? > > Have you run the updater tool to update the package lists? If your > mirror is not down then you need to do that. Perhaps it was down when > update-notifier was trying to download the latest package files to see > if there were any updates?
Thanks for the reply, Daniel. The message from update-notifier appears even after I run 'aptitude update'. I have repeated this exercise quite a few times and also confirmed that the mirror is up. But the pop-up persists. Interestingly, there's a bug reported in the BTS about this -- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506186 Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
