Yellow light bulb icon: Bug light?

[SteveRiley]

Aha! Sounds like the cause of the problems reported in these KFN posts:

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...g-after-a-boot
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...dle-of-display

In that second one, I suggested removing kubuntu-notification-helper as an experiment. Do you think that might be another workaround?

[JontheEchidna]

Yes, that would definitely do it, although it's a bit of a drastic way to work around the bug. As you can see from the above screenshot, that disables codec installation notifications as well as reboot notifications, which are important. I personally would not suggest removing kubuntu-notification-helper as a fix to the problem.

[SteveRiley]

I agree, your option is less drastic. I don't have the notification helper package installed on any of my machines and never encountered the "lightbulb problem," and I realized the possible connection only a few moments before your post appeared. I'll refer the others to your better suggestion.

[nevillef]

The trouble with your message is your are shooting the messanger. That will stop the message but does not fix the problem that caused the message in the first place, in that the packages are not installed. I have found it is only caused by the Muon software manager as I said above.

[bra|10n]

I must admit I read JontheEchidna's post the same way, almost an "ignore the error message as it has no consequence". Skimming the bug reports though he seemed to make the link with the GTK dependency you concluded. Though seemed to pay no attention to the outcome or result of this occurence.

[JontheEchidna]

The trouble with your message is your are shooting the messanger. That will stop the message but does not fix the problem that caused the message in the first place, in that the packages are not installed. I have found it is only caused by the Muon software manager as I said above.

Muon is still only the messenger, as it is the post-install script of flash that actually has the error. Muon seems to just be triggering the bug in the script.

[nevillef]

Well how come when I run the same script in the konsole everything goes fine. The errors I found using Muon was that it was looking for gksudo when it is not installed instead of kdesudo. That doesn't happen in the konsole.

[JontheEchidna]

Muon isn't what's looking for gksudo, the update notification script that the flash package uses wants it...

[nevillef]

I notice you are a developer and I am not, but isn't Muon running the same "flashplugin-installer" package that I run when I do "sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer" in the konsole? I don't have any problem with the konsole install.

[JontheEchidna]

Yes, but Muon is just triggering a bug in the script that causes it to fail. (The proxy environment setup is slightly different, but not wrong.The script is unable to cope with this.) This causes the download of the flash plugin from adobe to fail, prompting update-notifier to place the Malformed Upgrade Notification file so that users can try downloading it later. (Which Kubuntu users can't because the notification tries to re-do the download with gksudo)

The entire thing is a mess because of Ubuntu making major changes to how flash was downloaded waay too close to release. :/

[kubicle]

The entire thing is a mess because of Ubuntu making major changes to how flash was downloaded waay too close to release. :/

This is one of the pet peeves of mine...in the rush to get something in they seem to regularly "forget" users of non-gnome/unity desktops. This isn't the first time this happens.

[ferri]

sudo rm /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/data-downloads-failed
sudo rm /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/data-downloads-failed-permanently

Thanks for your advice. I deleted only first file (second I did not have) and it seems to be solved.

[Kryol]

I installed flashplugin-installer from konsole but I have same prodlem during next flashplugin update.

[weha]

Kubuntu 64 bit clean install.

I am not sure whether this problem of mine is related. It concerns not getting sound on sites like YouTube only after having installed msttcorefonts and getting the yellow bulb situation as described in this thread.
I have since removed the msttcorefonts package and flashplugin-installer plus the failed downloads file in/var/lib/update-notifier.
I then installed the adobe-flashplugin and adobe-flash-properties-kde via terminal. Still no sound on sites like YouTube.
All local videos/music files play fine with sound. All codecs were installed manually (I always do that). I did however enable the medibuntu repository.
Also isn't it rather confusing to be confronted with with two flashplugin package options. Before this problem the flashplugin-installer was ticked in the package manager (Kubuntu default), and there were no problems with audio on sites using the flashplayer.
Any ideas ?

(BTW - Here a screenshot of my desktop http://www.imagebam.com/image/4ccb56188398376)

Edit: All now hunky dory - my mistake, it was the 'Default audio device setting preference' in audio setup that I needed to change.

[bubblecruntz]

I assume this is the same issue i am having, i get a yellow lightbulb on my system tray when i click it i get a black line about 3 inchis tall that runs the width of my screen, if i use the cube desktop i see that it actually stretches across 3 of the 4 desktops, not that that is important. anyway if i hover my mouse over the lightbulb in my task bar it says something like "update manager" or something similar sorry I didn't remember text, I thought it would show in my screen shot, but it didn't. anyway here is the shot