Bug#577245: update-notifier: icon not shown in desktop notification area when updates are available

[Matt Kraai]

Package: update-notifier
Version: 0.70.7.debian-7
Severity: normal

Hi,

When updates are available (e.g., when aptitude shows that there are
78 upgradable packages), there is still no icon shown in the desktop
notification area.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (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-x11                 1.2.24-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gksu                     2.0.2-2+b1      graphical frontend to su
ii  hal                      0.5.14-2        Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.20-2        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.30.0-1        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.24.3-1        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.24.3-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                    2.10.2-6        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2                1.8.10-3+b1     The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.2.24-1        simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.84-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1           2.8.0-2         generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6             2.3.11-1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4              2.28.1-1        GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.6.4-1       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.24.0-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0              2.30.0-1        The GNOME library - runtime files
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.30.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.24.3-1        The GNOME libraries (User Interfac
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           1:2.24.3-1      GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.20.0-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                  0.5.14-2        Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                  2:1.0.6-1       X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1-g 0.4.5-1         sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2                1:2.14.17-2     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.28.0-1        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.15-1          lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                   2:1.1.1-1       X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.3.3-2       X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                  1:1.0.5-2       X11 authorisation library
ii  libxml2                  2.7.7.dfsg-1    GNOME XML library
ii  notification-daemon      0.4.0-2         a daemon that displays passive pop
ii  python                   2.5.4-9         An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-apt               0.7.94.2        Python interface to libapt-pkg
ii  update-manager-gnome     0.200.3-1       GNOME application that manages sof
ii  update-notifier-common   0.70.7.debian-7 Files shared between update-notifi

update-notifier recommends no packages.

update-notifier suggests no packages.

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