update-notifier does not work

[john levin]

Horst Schlonz wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 10.01.2006, 04:50 -0500 schrieb 'Forum Post:
> 
>>dan Wrote: 
>>
>>>On 09/01/06, Horst Schlonz <horst.schlonz (AT) gmx (DOT) de> wrote:
>>>
>>>>update-notifier is running but it does not notify me about updates. i
>>>>have to do updates manually. what can i do?
>>>
>>>Do you mean what can you do to fix the update-notifier? Or do you mean
>>>how can you update manually?
>>>___________________________________
>>>
>>
>> I think that he/she wants to know how he/she :) can get update-notifier
>> to notify again. I have exactly the same problem here. Gnome
>> system-monitor shows that update-notifier is using about 20mb of
>> virtual memory and it is sleeping. Still, it doesn't notify of new
>> updates until you start update-notifier yourself...
> 
> 
> this is exactly, what i meant.
> 
> i can't start update-notifier myself because it is already running.
> sadly it doesn't do anything.
> 
> 
Is it possible that your preferences need tweaking? Is Software Update 
set to check every n days?

John