Check for updates give no response
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When I click on Vivaldi > Check for updates I get no reply whatsoever
Any thoughts?
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@BartinVA The feedback popup is appearing "behind" Vivaldi and is accessible at the system task bar, or you have some kind of pop-up blocker blocking it? I have never seen a failure to generate a check for update response, so it's hard for me to imagine what could cause this.
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I do indeed have had a blocker for some years, but this is something new.
I use unblock origin - am I the only Vivaldi user of this program? -
I have a bar with the time and date, a URL entry bar and my bookmarks bar. Which is a system task bar?
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This is weird. Earlier today I checked my version and it was 3.2.1947. something ( I could be a little off on the third number).
Now it shows 3.3.2022 and I swear I did not knowingly update ( I can't!)
Also, it hit me that for some time I have not been receiving the periodic prompts telling me that a new version is ready.
I still am getting no reply from a check for updates, but at least you should know how long this has been going on based on that 3.2 build. -
@BartinVA Do you have "notify about updates" checked in Settings/General/Updates?
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In preferences, Download and automatically install updates is checked, which must explain all this. One of the recent updates must have done that, but I should have looked at that setting before coming here. Thanks for pointing that out!
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I've been seeing this behavior for the last several updates, for many months. With a current version of Vivaldi, "check for updates" returns a message saying I'm up to date. Checking for updates returns nothing when there is actually an update available. Then I know to manually download the update.
To be clear, the update window is not behind another window. This occurs whether or not "Automatically download and install updates" is checked in Vivaldi preferences. And if it is checked, it appears that it's not actually functioning.
MacOS 10.15.7
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@Ayespy I think on macOS there is some code missing as the auto update hides the update prompt (if you try a check for updates with auto updates on the prompt will not show) and does not have a progress bar that is visible.
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@jtummins Since then, have you been updating by manually downloading and installing the latest version?
Also, did you ever previously switch back and forth between Stable and Snapshot versions? Did you ever downgrade Vivaldi? Just trying to think of what could have put the updater on your installation into a bad state, where it's either broken or (possibly) checking for updates for the wrong stream.
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I've had similar issue, dialog box didn't show up front or behind. In the end I manually downloaded an updated. Now is working as normal when choose Vivaldi > Check for updates...
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Still having this issue, had to do another manual update.
Anyone have idea what is the issue?
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@bluesnoop85 Do you have Automatillay download and Install Updates checked? (last time I had that had it broke the manual check for updates, not sure if it is fixed yet)
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@chas4 said in Check for updates give no response:
@bluesnoop85 Do you have Automatillay download and Install Updates checked? (last time I had that had it broke the manual check for updates, not sure if it is fixed yet)
Yup now I have got it turned the dialog box appears. Will see what happens next update.
Thanks
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Turning Automatically download and install updates, works just have to remember to check for updated weekly.
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I know that updating Vivaldi on macOS has been problematic for some. I checked the bugtracker and currently see two open/Confirmed bugs related to this:
VB-75242: a generic bug where "Check for updates" does not open the update dialog.
VB-73960: a more specific bug where "Check for updates" does not open the update dialog if an update is currently downloading.It makes me wonder what would happen if a download either failed (and Vivaldi did not clean up properly) or only completed partially, and whether this could also cause problems for the Vivaldi updater on macOS.
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@xyzzy Interesting that there might be a left over download that failed (I might have had that happen in the past). Know where on macOS the partial download might be?
When https://forum.vivaldi.net/assets/uploads/files/1620330167834-179f5d28-1b13-417c-8d2e-98215ea8ef56-image.png was added the check for update did nothing for me until I unchecked that box.
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@chas4 I am not actively testing on macOS at the moment (my MacBook Pro died and I have not replaced it yet) but the last time I checked, which was ages ago, the downloaded updates were stored in
~/Library/Caches/com.vivaldi.Vivaldi/Sparkle/
I don't know whether or not Vivaldi stores lock files or any other temp files elsewhere. -