The notifications about new package updates does not appear anymore on one of my PCs. I googled but I found very little about. How can I debug it?
I have Lubuntu 22.04
The notifications about new package updates does not appear anymore on one of my PCs. I googled but I found very little about. How can I debug it?
I have Lubuntu 22.04
Out of curiosity, if you open a terminal and run apt update
and apt list --upgradeable
what does that show?
I found a maybe related post on this forum where someone was seeing a similar behavior but perhaps for a different reason than yours:
Maybe itās normal for this time of the cycle? Not sureā¦ will defer to someone else.
Are there any updates for Jammy?
Jammy changes for Jan 2025 <<- I see mostly changes for Azure (I think this is wsl?) and other special platforms. But, I didnāt look that carefully at it. There could be some stuff for amd64s and whatnot.
I can upgrade my system with usual sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
, itās only the notification I donāt get.
Yeah, I read that post, but it doesnāt contain any info about how to fix or debug the problem.
I have a laptop with Lubuntu 22.04 Jammy too, and there I get upgrade notification. Indeed I know that there are upgrades from the laptop.
Is lxqt-notificationd running?
If it is perhaps the default configuration has been changed?
lxqt-config-notificationd
The two checkboxes in General Settings are unchecked by defaultā¦
See: lxqt-notificationd for more info
Yes, lxqt-notificationd
is running and it works.
I just noticed that I get upgrade notifications on my laptop because I have Gnome update-notifier
installed on it. I have this because on the laptop I upgraded from LXDE to LXQT. On the contrary, I had to make a clean install of LXQT on the PC when the update notification does not work.
I think the package for LXQT is lubuntu-update-notifier
. Searching on internet, I found that its script is /usr/libexec/lubuntu-update-notifier/lubuntu-upg-notifier.sh
. If I run it manually, I get this error:
marco@buzz:~/sources$ /usr/libexec/lubuntu-update-notifier/lubuntu-upg-notifier.sh
usage: lubuntu-notifier.py [-h] [-p APP] [-u APP] [-s APP] [-r APP] [-v APP]
lubuntu-notifier.py: error: unrecognized arguments: LTS
PS: I choosed in my preferences to be notified only about LTS dist upgrades.
Look at the āusage.ā You need to give it all the arguments, otherwise it will provide an error. So it makes sense it doesnāt work when you run it that way (that said, @ArrayBolt3 it might make sense to check for those arguments in the shell script before trying to pass it off to lubuntu-notifier.py).