[Bug 1223321] Re: update-notifier says 29 updates available but Software Updater says just 8

[markling]

I just installed those 29 updates, by the way. And then my system does a
popup that says: "there are 20 updates available". So here I am with
this new update message, and I think either my system didn't check the
last lot of updates properly. Or it's got another bunch of updates it
could only do after it had done the first lot.

So you go back to the Software Updater again and, like Laurel and
Hardy's car mechanic, you click on the update notifier, and it does
indeed say there are 20 updates to install. So you click on 'update' a
little reluctantly. And, yes it says there are no updates to install!
And it sits there the update notifier icon, and you can click on it any
time you like, and it will pop up saying, 'there are 20 updates to
install', even though there are not.

(It does in fact look like the new 20 might be the updates left from the
29 updates before: it could install only 8 of those, remember. So it
installed the eight updates the Software Updater recognised and that
leaves twenty... er... one. Twenty one. Okay we seem to have lost an
update somwhere. We are still sure this is not a security vulnerability
aren't we? Someone must be sure it's not a security vulnerability.
Because it looks to me that when I just gave my Software Updater
permission to install 8 updates it installed 9).

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Title:
  update-notifier says 29 updates available but Software Updater says
  just 8

Status in “update-notifier” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I've marked it as a security vulnerability.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.186.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-30.44-generic 3.8.13.6
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-30-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Sep 10 13:19:51 2013
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1378815536'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'1079'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'680'
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-28 (285 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-14 (118 days ago)

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