Bug#506186: update-notifier: panel icon constantly says update infomation is outdated when it's not

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Package: update-notifier
Version: 0.70.7.debian-5
Severity: important

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The panel icon for update-notifier constantly appears as a triangle with
an exclamation point in it and a popup windows that says: "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information is outdated.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 are no network problems and this will occur within minutes of
having run an upgrade through aptitude. The only way to get the icon to
go away is to run aptitude safe-upgrade again, even though there are no
new packages. This behavior essentially makes the notification icon in
the panel useless, for automatic notification of new packages. This
problem appeared a several weeks ago after some upgrades, although I
don't know which particular upgrades caused it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages update-notifier depends on:
ii  dbus [dbus-1-utils]      1.2.1-4         simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  gksu                     2.0.0-5         graphical frontend to su
ii  hal                      0.5.11-6        Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.20-2        Library of functions for 2D
graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.22.0-1        The ATK accessibility
toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.22.0-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces
library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.22.0-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.7-16          GNU C Library: Shared
libraries
ii  libcairo2                1.6.4-6.1       The Cairo 2D vector
graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.2.1-4         simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.76-1          simple interprocess
messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4              2.22.0-1        GNOME configuration
database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.6.2-1       library to load .glade
files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.16.6-1        The GLib library of C
routines
ii  libgnome2-0              2.20.1.1-1      The GNOME 2 library -
runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.20.1.1-1      A powerful object-oriented
display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.20.1.1-2      The GNOME 2 libraries (User
Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           1:2.22.0-5      GNOME Virtual File System
(runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.12.11-4       The GTK+ graphical user
interface 
ii  libhal1                  0.5.11-6        Hardware Abstraction Layer
- share
ii  libice6                  2:1.0.4-1       X11 Inter-Client Exchange
library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-g 0.4.4-3         sends desktop notifications
to a n
ii  liborbit2                1:2.14.13-0.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a
CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.20.5-3        Layout and rendering of
internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.14-4          lib for parsing cmdline
parameters
ii  libsm6                   2:1.0.3-2       X11 Session Management
library
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.1.5-2       X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                  1:1.0.3-3       X11 authorisation library
ii  libxml2                  2.6.32.dfsg-4   GNOME XML library
ii  notification-daemon      0.3.7-1+b1      a daemon that displays
passive pop
ii  python                   2.5.2-3         An interactive high-level
object-o
ii  python-apt               0.7.7.1+nmu1    Python interface to
libapt-pkg
ii  update-manager           0.68.debian-7   GNOME application that
manages sof
ii  update-notifier-common   0.70.7.debian-5 Files shared between
update-notifi

update-notifier recommends no packages.

update-notifier suggests no packages.

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