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ubuntu-release-upgrader package

  1. Bug #1173209
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 1173209

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Kyle Skrinak (kyle-skrinakcreative) wrote : Re: Prompted about New Release for 13.04 again after already done dist-upgrade and newstart

Does the file exist? Yes
> file /var/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-available
 /var/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-available: ASCII text

Does release-upgrade-motd remove this file?
> /usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-motd
 New release '13.04' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.

> file /var/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-available
/var/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/release-upgrade-available: ASCII text

SO, running release-upgrade-motd doesn't not remove the file; BUT, manually removing that file removes the message at startup