No dom0 update notification even when updates are available

[andrewdavidwong]

Qubes OS version (e.g., R3.2):

R3.2

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This is the opposite of #2086 (which is now fixed for me). No dom0 update notification appears in Qubes Manager even after manually running sudo qubes-dom0-update --clean --check-only and seeing that updates are indeed available.

This is arguably much worse than #2086, since users could miss important security updates this way.

[marmarek]

Cannot reproduce. Check if you have (empty) file /var/lib/qubes/updates/dom0-updates-available and what owner/mode.

[marmarek]

Cannot reproduce. Check if you have (empty) file /var/lib/qubes/updates/dom0-updates-available and what owner/mode.

[andrewdavidwong]

Cannot reproduce.

Strange. I could reproduce it on two different Qubes machines.

Check if you have (empty) file /var/lib/qubes/updates/dom0-updates-available and what owner/mode.

I have no such file (but also no available updates right now, FWIW).

[andrewdavidwong]

Cannot reproduce.

Strange. I could reproduce it on two different Qubes machines.

Check if you have (empty) file /var/lib/qubes/updates/dom0-updates-available and what owner/mode.

I have no such file (but also no available updates right now, FWIW).

[marmarek]

What about directory, especially it's mode? Should be owned by group qubes and group writable.

[marmarek]

What about directory, especially it's mode? Should be owned by group qubes and group writable.

[andrewdavidwong]

What about directory, especially it's mode? Should be owned by group qubes and group writable.

drwxrwx---  4 root qubes [...] updates/

[andrewdavidwong]

What about directory, especially it's mode? Should be owned by group qubes and group writable.

drwxrwx---  4 root qubes [...] updates/

[marmarek]

That notification flag is not created by qubes-dom0-update itself, but by a cron job started once a day (/etc/cron.daily/qubes-dom0-updates.cron). And it can be disabled in Qubes Manager in global settings.

[marmarek]

That notification flag is not created by qubes-dom0-update itself, but by a cron job started once a day (/etc/cron.daily/qubes-dom0-updates.cron). And it can be disabled in Qubes Manager in global settings.

[andrewdavidwong]

I have it enabled in QM's global settings. Perhaps the cron job hadn't had a chance to run yet. I'll close this for now.

[andrewdavidwong]

I have it enabled in QM's global settings. Perhaps the cron job hadn't had a chance to run yet. I'll close this for now.