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    Software Updater is blank

    Getting this when checking for updates in Xubuntu 18.04 -
    Screen shot 2018-06-14 1.png
    ???

    I notice it says there are 295 kB to be downloaded, despite not listing anything. Synaptic shows some available updates, but I don't know how many of those are phased updates that I 'shouldn't' get yet (is there a way to check this?).

    What is happening to Software Updater? Is this normal and expected behavior? If not, how to set it right?

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    Re: Software Updater is blank

    Can you run sudo apt update in a terminal and post the output here?

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    Re: Software Updater is blank

    you could also run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade after you fo the sudo apt-get update. i run them both. sorry to but in oldos2er.

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    Re: Software Updater is blank

    Quote Originally Posted by oldos2er View Post
    Can you run sudo apt update in a terminal and post the output here?
    Code:
    $ sudo apt update
    Hit:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
    Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                     
    Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease             
    Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB] 
    Hit:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease              
    Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease            
    Fetched 74.6 kB in 1s (83.3 kB/s)                                              
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    8 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
    Quote Originally Posted by bodhin2 View Post
    you could also run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade after you fo the sudo apt-get update.
    Code:
    $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    Calculating upgrade... Done
    The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
      libpcre2-8-0 linux-headers-4.15.0-20 linux-headers-4.15.0-20-generic
      linux-image-4.15.0-20-generic linux-modules-4.15.0-20-generic
      linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-20-generic
    Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
    The following packages will be upgraded:
      command-not-found command-not-found-data desktop-file-utils file
      libmagic-mgc libmagic1 python3-commandnotfound wireless-regdb
    8 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 1,360 kB of archives.
    After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
    Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
    Abort.
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    Re: Software Updater is blank

    If you were to cancel/close the updater and then try opening it again, does it show as blank still?
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    Re: Software Updater is blank

    Quote Originally Posted by deadflowr View Post
    If you were to cancel/close the updater and then try opening it again, does it show as blank still?
    Already tried that and yes it does.
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    Re: Software Updater is blank

    Just tried Software Updater again now, and it's back working. I didn't change anything in my system. No idea what the issue was.
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    Re: Software Updater is blank

    glad it's all working!

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    Re: Software Updater is blank

    Well, this happened again today. This time it says there are 1.9 MB of stuff to download.

    Is there something in common about the day I first saw this issue and today in terms of the phased updates that are available?
    Could it be related to my deliberately keeping some old kernels that got marked for auto-removal?

    * Maybe answering one of my own questions here. I decided to be daring and run sudo apt-get --purge autoremove and try Software Updater again. It now seems back working and it lists 1.8 MB of available updates.
    Last edited by halogen2; July 13th, 2018 at 02:38 AM.
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    Re: Software Updater is blank

    Someone else seems to have had the same thing today:
    https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2396226
    weird, huh.
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