[support] How to diagnose available updates check failure on fresh install

[Luke]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Jim Tarvid wrote:

> Have you run "cron"? One early task is to install a crontab. Another is to
> install drush.

Cron would cause a "no updates available" or "updates never checked" sort 
of error, not a "can not get updates" error.

Have you checked the drupal logs for any kind of errors? 
admin/reports/dblog is a good place to start.

Luke