I think I have a problem with mint update

[TW]

Hi

Mint update has shown that there have been no updates for about 2 weeks now so i think somethin might be wrong? If i don't click on the icon to open it it shows the open lock icon after a while and if you hover over it says there are 39 updates. however, when i then click it, enter the password and let it scan it says the system is up to date!

What's going on?

[Husse]

Have you clicked refresh in the open mintUpdate - sometimes that's necessary

[TW]

Hi, yes i have clicked refresh and no updates appear

[Husse]

I think this is for Clem to answer....

[clem]

Which version of mintUpdate are you using? Also, can you provide the logs for mintUpdate? (right click in the panel and click "Information").

Clem

[TW]

hi - i'm not sure which version it is - how do i find that?

This is what the log says:

"* Launching mintUpdate in root mode
starting refresh
auto-refresh timer is going to sleep for 0 minutes, 1 hours and 0 days
system is up to date
refresh finished
starting refresh
system is up to date
refresh finished"

Just checked again and it said 41 updates so i opened it, entered password and did refresh and now it says none again!

[Husse]

i'm not sure which version it is - how do i find that?

Oops - I can't find it either.....

[JpBя]

I'm having a similar problem. Mine often says it is up to date, when there are really many updates available. I have another computer running the same version (2.3), and it doesn't have this problem. On a separate note, both systems will often allow me to update without authenticating even after hours of inactivity. I've attached a screenshot showing what it looks like if I refresh mintupdate, then open synaptic and look at updates.

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[WoodCAT]

Same problem here. i'm running v 2.3 from romeo daryna repository. When I start mint, it is first searching, then it shows 'open lock' icon and says "updates are ready', but when I open it to see what updates they are, nothing is there.
I tried to play with safe levels settings, but no difference.
nothing in log either

* Launching mintUpdate in root mode
starting refresh
auto-refresh timer is going to sleep for 30 minutes, 0 hours and 0 days
system is up to date
refresh finished
starting refresh
system is up to date

[GoustiFruit]

I have the same problem: on startup it always tells me that my system is up to date. But if I manually refresh, it often finds some updates to do.

[Husse]

One more with the problem
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=11069&p=67813

[WoodCAT]

Just in case people still have this problem, I fixed it.
I've noticed that synaptic can't reach the Exaile repository. After I removed it from sources.list and refreshed mintUpdate. MintUpdate works fine again. Looks like it can't deal with repos which no longer exist. Bug maybe?
Hope this works for you

Rich.

[Paul_Vandenberg]

What's the Exaile repository?

[WoodCAT]

http://www.google.ca/search?q=Exaile+repository

Repository, which I used to install Exaile player. The link I used is expired now.
http://www.exaile.org/ as good as Amarok, but lighter. IMO

[clem]

I'll look into that and hopefully come with a fix soon on this. Even without buggy repositories I noticed mintUpdate sometimes doesn't show updates when first clicked on (even though it found some updates before clicking on it). As for the credentials not being asked after hours of usage.. it's in root mode after you've clicked on it and still running so it doesn't need any further authorization, that's how it is by design (not a fault).

That refresh problem is annoying but not critical. If you manually click refresh it should find the updates again. Of course we should have that fixed nonetheless before Elyssa comes out.

Clem

[Guest]

I'm having a similar problem. Mine often says it is up to date, when there are really many updates available. I have another computer running the same version (2.3), and it doesn't have this problem. On a separate note, both systems will often allow me to update without authenticating even after hours of inactivity. I've attached a screenshot showing what it looks like if I refresh mintupdate, then open synaptic and look at updates.

Screenshot2.png

I like your dekstop screenshot!

[Foomandoonian]

I actually seem to have the opposite problem! I get the unlocked padlock, which at the moment tells me there are 15 updates available. However when I launch mintUpdate I see no packages. It says 'could not refresh the list of packages'.

I'm wondering if this is because I had to reconfigure apt recently?

[WoodCAT]

Clem,
I tried hitting refresh many times, but it still showed no updates. When I clicked on the open lock icon and mintUpdate opened, it was refreshing, then the icon changed to closed lock with no updates available. When I remove the nonexistent repository link, it works as normal. Which is fine with me. The feature I miss is "Lock version" like in synaptic.

Rich.

[JpBя]

I second the thought about an option to lock the version. I recompiled K3B to fix the bug in transcoding dvds, and I have to deselect the "update" (even though it's the same version number) for the version from the repositories every time. The package is pinned, but it still shows up. I don't know what would happen if I allowed the update, but I don't want to risk it. Of course this does let me know when a broken repository is keeping me from seeing updates, since that's the only time it says I'm up to date!

[Foomandoonian]

Has there been any fix for this yet? The last few comments don't mean much to me, and I have 22 updates that I can't seem to download! I'm starting to get a bit uncomfortable.