mintUpdate not warning about new updates
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 9:12 pm
Hi all,
There is something funny going on with my mintUpdate on my LMDE 64bit install. It does not warn me about new updates unless I click the Update Management screen (clicking the shield icon in the systray) and I enter my password BEFORE it refreshes and comes back to tell me there are hundreds of updates available!
So I repeat this some days later but this time keeping an eye on the mintUpdate log files. And funnily, after the whole click-open-password-refresh dance there are TWO of them:
One that I can open as normal user:
And a second that I can only open as root:
Is mintUpdate in normal mode not able to find updates? Should it be running in root mode from the start?
What's going on here?
There is something funny going on with my mintUpdate on my LMDE 64bit install. It does not warn me about new updates unless I click the Update Management screen (clicking the shield icon in the systray) and I enter my password BEFORE it refreshes and comes back to tell me there are hundreds of updates available!
So I repeat this some days later but this time keeping an eye on the mintUpdate log files. And funnily, after the whole click-open-password-refresh dance there are TWO of them:
One that I can open as normal user:
Code: Select all
++ Launching mintUpdate in user mode
++ Testing initial connection
-- No connection found (tried to read http://www.google.com and to ping google.com) - sleeping for 60 seconds
++ Starting refresh
++ Auto-refresh timer is going to sleep for 59 minutes, 0 hours and 0 days
++ Connection to the Internet successful (tried to read http://www.google.com)
++ Successfully downloaded new safety rules using proxy: None
++ System is up to date
++ Refresh finished
...[snip]...
++ MintUpdate is in tray mode, performing auto-refresh
++ Starting refresh
++ Auto-refresh timer is going to sleep for 59 minutes, 0 hours and 0 days
++ Connection to the Internet successful (tried to read http://www.google.com)
++ Successfully downloaded new safety rules using proxy: None
++ System is up to date
++ Refresh finished
++ Launching mintUpdate in root mode, waiting for it to kill us...Code: Select all
++ Launching mintUpdate in root mode
++ Starting refresh
++ Auto-refresh timer is going to sleep for 59 minutes, 0 hours and 0 days
++ Connection to the Internet successful (tried to read http://www.google.com)
++ Successfully downloaded new safety rules using proxy: None
++ Found 4 recommended software updates
++ Refresh finishedWhat's going on here?
