update-notifier - crash

[Keith]

On 3/27/23 3:27 PM, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> Hi Keith,
> 
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 at 21:11, Keith <keithw at caramail.com 
> <mailto:keithw at caramail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     What version of the update-notifier package do you have installed? Was
>     it included in the list of upgrades you just performed?
> 
> 
> 1. update-notifier 3.192.54.6 is installed

So I'm clear, this is the installed version now and it's also the 
version number you got from the .crash file?

The reason I'm asking is because there was an update to update-notifier 
a few days ago. Originally, this update was part of a phased update 
cycle, but because of errors reported, its deployment was stopped for 
some days.. My system happened to be one of those that got the update 
when it was about 40% (can't remember exactly at what percentage, just 
that I got it before deployment was stopped) Because it started crashing 
randomly I had to downgrade to a previous version. After update-notifier 
went back into phase update I upgraded it 4 days ago and haven't had any 
problems yet. But the kind of crash you had is similar to what I 
experienced with the previous update which makes me curious about it.

Unfortunately, I don't have a solution. If it keeps happening, then I 
guess you could try what I did by downgrading to the previous version 
and then upgrading again. Couldn't begin to tell you why that worked 
though. Probably coincidence, heh.
> 2. I got this info from the top of the 
> _usr_bin_update-notifier.1000.crash file:
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
> Date: Mon Mar 27 19:37:30 2023
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-notifier
> ExecutableTimestamp: 1674240639
> ProcCmdline: update-notifier
> ProcCwd: /home/ian
> ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
>   PATH=(custom, user)
>   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
>   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcMaps:
> <snipped!>
> 
-- 
Keith