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update-notifier package

error when logging in via console

Bug #1206452 reported by Lars Noodén
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
update-notifier (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
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Bug Description

When I log in via console, I get the following three errors / warnings:

            find: `/var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available': No such
            file or
            directory
            cat: /var/lib/update-notifier/updates-available: No such
            file or directory
            run-parts: /etc/update-motd.d/90-updates-available exited
            with return code 1

These only happen with the console and not when using lxterminal or 'su -l'

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lp:update-notifier/ubuntu
Dennis Kaarsemaker: Pending requested
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Lars Noodén (larsnooden) wrote :

update-notifier-common

affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu) → update-notifier (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Lars Noodén (larsnooden) wrote :

The problems occur in /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-updates-available

Either the script should create the stamp file at the beginning:

touch "$stamp"

Or it should do checks on its existence prior to trying to use it:

if [ -f "$stamp" ]; then
    ...
fi

Steve Langasek (vorlon)
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → In Progress
importance: Undecided → High
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.144

---------------
update-notifier (0.144) saucy; urgency=low

  * Fix the newly-optimized update-motd-updates-available to correctly handle
    the initial case when the stamp file doesn't yet exist. LP: #1206452.
 -- Steve Langasek <email address hidden> Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:25:05 +0100

Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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