Just in case anyone reads these things (yes, I know, I'm feeling snarky), I wanted to mention that the last set of updates fixed the problem for me. They included some files related to update-manager, and they showed up on August 12, 2008, plus or minus a day.
Nice to finally have that annoyance fixed! -- update-manager fails to bring up the password prompt for root privileges https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/187982 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
