By lucacerone on

Hi everybody,
I just finished installing Drupal 7.2 (standard) on my hosting service.
I have not created any content nor installed any new module, yet.
Although cron is running, I continuously get a warning in my Status Reports,
saying "No update available data". I get recommended to run cron manually
or to check for updates.
If I run cron manually, the message is still there.
If I check for update manually the box turns into green and an "Up to date" message appears.
At the next execution of cron, the box turns into yellow again, so I'm assuming
that there is something wrong preventing cron to run the script (function) to check for updates.
I have no idea how to solve the issue, and really would like to be notified automatically
when new releases for Drupal or my modules are available.
Can you help me solving this? Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Cheers, -Luca

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ayesh’s picture

ayesh commented

Actually this is not a big problem. I usually add an email address to notify me when updates available.
But make sure that admin/reports/updates page display "X seconds ago" after a manual check.

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lucacerone commented

Hi Ayesh,
I've set up also the email address to receive a notification,
but I'm not sure wether I'll receive the notification
if cron doesn't check for the updates.
Anyone else having the same issue that can help me clear this point?
Thanks in any case for the help,
Regards, Luca

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lucacerone commented

No other suggestions from the community???
I just would like to be sure everything is working safe and sound...
Thanks in advance!
Cheers, -Luca

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ayesh commented

Go to /admin/build/status to see if curl is enabled. Also, if the site has some problems, you can see.
Update module won't work without correct settings to connect to drupal.org

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lucacerone commented

Hi Ayesh,
thanks for your reply.
By curl you mean "clean urls"?
In that case they are enabled.
The only "gray box" I have in my status report says:

"Upload progress Not enabled
Your server is capable of displaying file upload progress, but does not have the required libraries. It is recommended to install the PECL uploadprogress library (preferred) or to install APC."

I guess that has nothing to do with the status update in any case.
Thanks in any case for your answer!
Cheers, -Luca

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Road Runner commented

Similar issue with update status. I get gray boxes, then green boxes then yellow boxes all seemingly without meaning I can discern. If I run cron manually the colors change. I also update and the modules still show that they need to be updated although this doesn't happen all the time. While it has been pointed out this isn't big deal on its own it does contribute to my feeling that D7 is flaky in some fundamental ways. That said I use it all the time.

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lucacerone commented

Hi, upgrading to Drupal 7.4
seems to have been fixed the issue.
From the note of the version ( http://drupal.org/node/1204634 ):
#647964: Running cron does not check for available updates by jergason, bfroehle, Damien Tournoud, corbacho, Pancho: Fixed Running cron does not check for available updates.

The upgrading went flawless on my site (I have only core modules and very few contents though),
and now it seems to work fine (but I'd like to wait 1 day or 2 to see if it is actually fixed or not).

Hope this helps.
Luca

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ayesh commented

Thanks for letting us know!

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