[kai12]

I don't think "Notification Area" and "Update Notifier" are the same thing.
I have both running on my system:

$ ps aux | grep -i notif
kai       4440  0.0  2.1  23128 11160 ?        Ss   18:49   0:00 update-notifier --sm-config-prefix /update-notifier-vcvqnA/ --sm-client-id 117f000101000117096297700000031230005 --screen 0
kai       4693  0.1  2.1  23468 11272 ?        S    18:49   0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-panel/notification-area-applet --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_NotificationAreaApplet_Factory --oaf-ior-fd=49

Do you have update-notifier installed? If so, is it up and running?

cheers, kai

[svzard]

Originally Posted by kai12

I don't think "Notification Area" and "Update Notifier" are the same thing.
I have both running on my system:

Same here. I've both. But none of them notify of the the updates.

Do you have update-notifier installed? If so, is it up and running?

How do I confirm that? I mean any commands like 'ifconfig'... Its installed but the update-notifier is not giving any notifications. Meanwhile, I'm doing, 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-get dist-upgrade' every day or two. Hope I'm correct as for as manual updating is concerned.

[kai12]

Originally Posted by svzard

How do I confirm that?

Do a

ps aux | grep -i notif

and see if the update-notifier process
shows up (like I did in my previous post).

If it's not running, and I suspect so, then you can add it to the "start-up
programs", that's in the Desktop → Preferences → Session menu on the tab
with the same name. On my system, there is a "update-notifier" entry there,
and you can just add it manually.

Originally Posted by svzard

Meanwhile, I'm doing, 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-get dist-upgrade' every day or two. Hope I'm correct as for as manual updating is concerned.

Sounds fine to me.

cheers, kai

[coopstah13]

you don't need to use dist-upgrade anymore, thats for the original upgrade to lenny only, just use upgrade from here on out

[svzard]

Hey don't know why but the notification is working fine in other two of the accounts I created. Since one of them is my sudo account (I edited the /etc/sudoers) I'm happy with this. Though it will bug me why its not working in one account.

Also, what coopstah13 has said makes sense. Will do the just the same in case needed in future.

Thanks a lot.

[devils casper]

Originally Posted by coopstah13

you don't need to use dist-upgrade anymore, thats for the original upgrade to lenny only, just use upgrade from here on out

One should run dist-upgrade on regular intervals. Sometimes Developers introduce new packages dependent on existing installed packages. If you dont run dist-upgrade, new packages will not be installed and existing dependent packages will be held back.