On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:04:52 +0530 Girish Kulkarni <gir...@hri.res.in> wrote:
> 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 The update information is outdated.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 I'm afraid I have no idea then...it works here. What happens when you do 'Check' in update-notifier? (Perhaps update-notifier keeps separate metadata, like time it last checked, so that out-of-band changes don't get noticed?) Regards, Daniel -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org
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