[tor-bugs] #27828 [Applications/Tor Browser]: "Check for Tor Browser update" doesn't seem to do anything

[Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki]

#27828: "Check for Tor Browser update" doesn't seem to do anything
--------------------------------------+--------------------------
 Reporter:  arma                      |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
 Keywords:                            |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                            |         Points:
 Reviewer:                            |        Sponsor:
--------------------------------------+--------------------------

Comment (by arma):

 Ok, I came back after sleeping and it offered me to restart. I declined,
 so I could debug this more.

 Now I'm back where I was, where asking it to check for updates has no
 apparent effect.

 I set app.update.log to true, and then clicked check-for-updates again,
 and ctrl-shift-j now has these lines:
 {{{
 [09-23 17:19:01] Torbutton WARN: no SOCKS credentials found for current
 document.
 [09-23 17:19:02] Torbutton WARN: no SOCKS credentials found for current
 document.
 AUS:SVC showUpdateDownloaded - Notifying observers that an update was
 downloaded. topic: update-downloaded, status: pending
 [09-23 17:19:44] Torbutton WARN: no SOCKS credentials found for current
 document.
 [09-23 17:19:45] Torbutton WARN: no SOCKS credentials found for current
 document.
 }}}

 So it sounds like it is indeed doing something, and the problem for me is
 that it never pops up any of the windows that it's supposed to pop up --
 except, eventually, the "an update is available, choose not now or restart
 tor browser" window in the top right.

 (I wonder what the 'no socks credentials' complaint is about -- I don't
 think I was browsing other stuff at the time, so I guess this is some
 internal thing that Tor Browser does on a schedule. Or maybe the timing of
 those messages is too much of a coincidence.)

 Do other people running Tor Browser 8.0 on linux (debian oldstable in my
 case) get some window in response to choosing check-for-updates?

--
Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27828#comment:3>
Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/>
The Tor Project: anonymity online