update or not?

[Dave Howorth]

Amichai Rotman wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> All it means is that you need to restart the computer after a previous
> upgrade, probably after upgrading the Kernel.

Hello,

Thanks for the reply but I don't think you read all of my original mail.
I have repeatedly run apt-get upgrade and rebooted but the message is
still there, and in fact has become more baroque. Since the message is
repeated twice, with slight variations, I can only believe there is a
bug. Can anybody tell me where the message comes from or how to find the
problem?

Cheers, Dave

> Just open the Terminal and enter the following:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade
> 
> enter the password when prompted to do so and enter at the question
> (Y/n/q) - the capital Y means that is the default action to be taken
> when you press the Enter key.
> 
> That should clear those upgrades pending messages.
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> Amichai.
> 
> On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 17:32, Dave Howorth <dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
> <mailto:dhoworth at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     OK, now when I log in it gives an even longer message (see below).
>     Can somebody at least tell me where that message comes from?
> 
>     Thanks, Dave
> 
>     Linux pcx36 2.6.32-31-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 18:24:35 UTC 2011
>     i686 GNU/Linux
>     Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
> 
>     Welcome to Ubuntu!
>      * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
> 
>     5 packages can be updated.
>     5 updates are security updates.
> 
>     Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
> 
>     Welcome to Ubuntu!
>      * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
> 
>     9 packages can be updated.
>     4 updates are security updates.
> 
>     *** System restart required ***
>     No mail.
>     Last login: Tue May  3 10:49:24 2011
> 
> 
>     Dave Howorth wrote:
>     > I have a message I don't understand when I log in to an Ubuntu 10.04
>     > system. It says:
>     >
>     > Linux pcx36 2.6.32-31-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 8 18:24:35
>     UTC 2011
>     > i686 GNU/Linux
>     > Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
>     >
>     > Welcome to Ubuntu!
>     >  * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
>     >
>     > Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
>     >
>     > Welcome to Ubuntu!
>     >  * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com/
>     >
>     > 9 packages can be updated.
>     > 4 updates are security updates.
>     >
>     > *** System restart required ***
>     > No mail.
>     >
>     >
>     > The part I don't understand is the bit about updates and a system
>     > restart being required. I just updated the system with synaptic and
>     > rebooted - twice, just to be sure. I then ran
>     >
>     > # apt-get update
>     > [snip]
>     > # apt-get upgrade
>     > Reading package lists... Done
>     > Building dependency tree
>     > Reading state information... Done
>     > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>     >
>     > but it still gives me the update/restart message when I login.
>     >
>     > What do I need to do to get that message to go away?
>     >
>     > Thanks, Dave
>     >
> 
> 
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