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The Linux Mint Update Manager

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Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 160

Dominant language: Python
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Last GitHub push: Sep 12, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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160 open issues indexed

Linux Mint update failures - versions overly complex causing breakage Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1095 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
Scheduled refresh wakes the monitor on Xfce — the power-management inhibitor disables DPMS Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1093 · Opened Sep 15, 2026
mintupdate settings dialog visually resets Cinnamon Spice update toggles to disabled Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1091 · Opened Sep 9, 2026
Remove kernels window sorts in alphabetical order Open

BUG

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1089 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Details window uses double spacing of characters (characters seem to have double wide bounding boxes) impairing readability Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1087 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Unexpected connection to Firefox when updating Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1085 · Opened Aug 25, 2026
Partial failure of Cancel button Open

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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1084 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
Incorrect layouting of mintUpdate Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1083 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Flatpak update failures (e.g. "needs a later flatpak version") are shown as pending updates instead of errors Open

FEATURE REQUEST

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1082 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Kernel upgrade to 7.0.0.28 kills proper shutdown Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1080 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 9, 2026
Broadcom BCM4331 driver fails to build with Linux kernel 7.0.0-28 on Linux Mint 22.3 Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1079 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Automatic kernel removal does still not work --> softbricks system --> please prioritize Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1078 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Kernel upgrade to 7.0.0.28 breaks virtualbox Open

BUG

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1077 · 5 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Downloads Latest Kernel on Removal Of Older Kernel Open

FEATURE REQUEST

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1076 · Opened Jul 22, 2026
Update Manager automatically checks for updates no matter the configuration Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1075 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 18, 2026
auto update requires user interversion if power is lost during upgrade Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1072 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 9, 2026
Bug with a window asking for keyboard distribution during first update of a freshly installed LMDE 7 Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1069 · Opened Jun 28, 2026
Automatic mirror selection feature Open

FEATURE REQUEST

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1068 · Opened Jun 24, 2026
Discussion: giving users a real clue when an update fails, not just a file list Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1067 · Opened Jun 21, 2026
Admin authentication dialog becomes unusable after switching users during Flatpak refresh Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1066 · Opened Jun 12, 2026
mintupdate shows phantom "Obsolete" kernels after interrupted removal (Linux Mint 21.3 Xfce) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1064 · Opened May 11, 2026
Tray icon unresponsive after first click when window is hidden (tray_activate bug) Open

BUG

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1062 · Opened May 7, 2026
Flatpak updates requiring user confirmation are not handled in GUI (silent failure / refresh loop) Open

FEATURE REQUEST

linuxmint/mintupdate#1061 · 1 assignee · Opened May 4, 2026
Window fills the entire screen but isn't maximized Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1057 · Opened Apr 28, 2026
mint-refresh-cache running on two separate cycles Open

BUG

linuxmint/mintupdate#1056 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Remove unwanted startup checks and lag Open

FEATURE REQUEST

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1054 · Opened Apr 23, 2026
mintupdate deadlocks on libpam-cap update due to pk-debconf-helper CPU spike Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1052 · Opened Apr 21, 2026
Lenvo P16 G1 Nvidia RTX A3000 Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1051 · Opened Apr 10, 2026
Two Flatpacks Refuse To Install But Remain Listed Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1050 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 5, 2026
XKBD fails to initialize after update Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1047 · Opened Apr 3, 2026
Update Manager overtakes cursor while installing updates Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1046 · Opened Apr 1, 2026
/etc/upstream-release shipped as directory instead of file in Mint 22.3 (breaks gscan2pdf) Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1042 · Opened Mar 25, 2026
flatpak-update-worker busy-loops at ~46% CPU when parent mintUpdate process exits Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 74/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1041 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 25, 2026
Update Manager breaks when Spotify needs a need public key Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1040 · Opened Mar 18, 2026
Update Manager shows fewer updates on first load than after manual refresh Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1039 · Opened Mar 16, 2026
Update Manager uses the wrong destination for keyrings Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1036 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 15, 2026
After installing kernal 6.17.0-19.19-24.04.2 laptop stops in boot. (2nd boot issue) Open

BUG

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1034 · Opened Mar 14, 2026
Update Manager Has Problems with SNI (Vivaldi Browser Repository) Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1033 · Opened Mar 14, 2026
Mint 22.3 - Update manager stuck at 6.14.0-37 outdated kernel Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1031 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 11, 2026
Automatic updates take very long to complete Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1030 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 10, 2026
Update Manager cannot be closed after successful update Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1027 · Opened Feb 20, 2026
System drops to GRUB prompt after kernel update and release upgrade (UEFI, dual boot with Windows 10) Open

BUG

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1025 · Opened Feb 19, 2026
I left my Linux Mint PC for a while, When i came back the screen was blank with white cursor blinking in the top right Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1023 · Opened Feb 16, 2026
Linux Mint upgrade: The upgrade did not succeed Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1022 · Opened Feb 13, 2026
Kernel Manager terminology is misleading (“SUSPENDED” vs. “Not Installed”) Open

FEATURE REQUEST

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1020 · Opened Feb 4, 2026
Bug: Update Manager offers LibreOffice APT updates even when only Flatpak version is installed Open

BUG

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1029 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2026
mint-release-upgrade: point upgrade keeps on removing synaptic Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1016 · 4 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2026
Package updater partially uses secondary language instead of primary one Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1014 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 22, 2026
Mint update wrote almost 500 GB of data on my ssd in 2 days uptime Open

linuxmint/mintupdate#1017 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 22, 2026
mint-release-upgrade: release upgrade should honor current mirrors instead of resetting them. Open

FEATURE REQUEST

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/mintupdate#1010 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 20, 2026

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