I then tried running update-manager again. Both this time and the previous time I noticed that the program requested authentication twice, which is odd.
After clicking on "Install Updates", a message popped up 'Waiting for other tasks', presumably the dead daemon. peter 23332 7.3 8.9 85676 42640 ? S 11:10 0:42 /usr/bin/python2.6 /usr/bin/update-manager -- Message "daemon died" appeared while running update-manager https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443344 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