Hi every, sorry I originally posted this in the wrong area, hope it this is the right place.

"I have just upgraded to kubuntu 12.04 with out a problem. But now a light globe icon appears in the system tray with the message "System upgrade notifications are available". When I try to open it I get a black horizontal strip accross the centre of the screen.

I checked my system updates but they are all OK.

Can anyone tell me what's happening here eg why the light globe is appearing and why the horizontal band appears."

Cheers Lindsay

Can you upload a screenshot to an image hosting service (such as imgur or imagebin) and post it here? It's hard to tell what kind of problem is without a screenshot, in this case.

Sound like a package manager, maybe Muon? No idea why it behaves like that though.

Hi thank you very much for your replies. I've tried to upload screenshoots from imagebin. I've never done it before but it seemed straight forward.

Here they are. http://imagebin.org/210431 and http://imagebin.org/210430

As you can see I'm using 4 virtual desktops on a cube and the horizontal band only appears on one.

This is an error message related to the installation of flashplugin-installer and/or Microsoft fonts not installing correctly.
To remedy the situation "sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer" and Microsoft fonts will install automatically if they were part of the initial problem, then "sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer" to finish.

Thank you, I'm in bed at the moment so I'll fix it on my pc first thing tomorrow Australian time and let you know how it goes.

Hi everyone, thanks for your support, problem solved. First off I had forgotten to reinstall medibuntu after doing the upgrade, when I had done this I reinstalled flash as indicated and bingo no more light globe icon.

I still can't work out why the black band appeared but obviously it's not a problem now.

Once again thanks for the help

If you no longer have the problem, can you please mark this topic as solved? Thanks.

Hello

I am having the same problem: whenever I click on the notification update icon on the system tray, a black window appear in the midle third of the screen, and the only way is to kill it (I saw the process is called Kded4 but there's no such package in muon).

I also tried with Pagoda's answer:

pagoda wrote:This is an error message related to the installation of flashplugin-installer and/or Microsoft fonts not installing correctly.
To remedy the situation "sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer" and Microsoft fonts will install automatically if they were part of the initial problem, then "sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer" to finish.

but unfortunately the problem persists. I've also searched in launchpad for some bug like that but I didn't find anything (although I have to admit I do not know what to search)

Hope you can provide a solution.

Thanks

c-c-m wrote:Hello

I am having the same problem: whenever I click on the notification update icon on the system tray, a black window appear in the midle third of the screen, and the only way is to kill it (I saw the process is called Kded4 but there's no such package in muon).

Disabling the desktop effects temporarily (Alt+Shift+F12) should change the black box into a box with an error message. The cause might be https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/982032

Thank you,

I deactivated the desktop effects and I saw a weird error window (See here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... lugin1.png)

After purged the package flashplugin-installer the problem seems to be solved.

However, I have created a bug report in launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/995527

We've been discussing this at Kubuntu Forums, too.

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?58458
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?58585
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?58613
http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?58619

Apparently, there's a bug in Ubuntu's packaging.

I've been encouraging folks to enable the Ubuntu parter repository and obtain their Flash installer from there instead; the package is adobe-flashplugin. Adobe released an update to the Flash binary on 4 May that fixes an object confusion vulnerability that is actively under attack by in-the-wild exploit code. flashplugin-installer, currently at version 11.2.202.233, has not yet been updated. Adobe's binary in the partner repository is already updated with the fixed version 11.2.202.235.

I have adobe-flashplugin 11.2.202.235 installed but not flashplugin-installer. Does it make a difference?
I think the problem lies in kubuntu-update-notifier itself not necessarily in flash and this is kubuntu-update-notifier bug, as reported:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1001396

By the way it notifies me about updates always when I log in, even after I made update and when no new updates are available.