Re: update information is outdated?
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Daniel Dickinson wrote:
>> I am getting this message from the update notifier constantly in the
>> notification area on my panel --
>>
>> The update information is outdated. This may be caused by network
>> problems. Please update manually by clicking on this icon and
>> then selecting 'Check'.
>>
>> There seem to be no network problems. The message reappears after
>> "checking" for upgrades with aptitude or apt-get. What is wrong?
>
> Have you run the updater tool to update the package lists? If your
> mirror is not down then you need to do that. Perhaps it was down when
> update-notifier was trying to download the latest package files to see
> if there were any updates?
Thanks for the reply, Daniel. The message from update-notifier
appears even after I run 'aptitude update'. I have repeated this
exercise quite a few times and also confirmed that the mirror is up.
But the pop-up persists.
Interestingly, there's a bug reported in the BTS about this --
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=506186
Girish.
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