update manager freezes

Asked by fraterdqni

Having some issues with the update manager in 7.04. Over the past few days i have had the update manager advise me of available update. When i go to install them using the update manager it act as if it is installing them, but the update manager will grey out, will nto install any of the updates and just sit there on my screen until i reboot the system.

I can install the update from command line with no problem but the update manager is being picky with me lol.

Any suggestions or idea's?

Thanks in advance

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Ergosys (ergosys) said :
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Shot in the dark: do you have enough any free drive space? What is output of this command:

df -h

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fraterdqni (fraterdqni) said :
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Have over 5 gigs available.

dave@ootp:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 8.8G 2.8G 5.7G 33% /
varrun 78M 100K 78M 1% /var/run
varlock 78M 0 78M 0% /var/lock
procbususb 78M 80K 78M 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev 78M 80K 78M 1% /dev
devshm 78M 0 78M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 78M 33M 45M 43% /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/volatile

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Best corenominal (corenominal) said :
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Hi fraterdqni

I have experienced similar when trying to run the update manager on an old laptop. If I remember correctly, I got round it by running the update throught the terminal using apt.

apt-get update

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fraterdqni (fraterdqni) said :
#4

Hi Phillip,

I was thinking about this as well. Think i will do it this way for now and see what happens after the 7.10 release is out. Hopefully will run through fine after that. Just seemed strange because when i first installed 7.04 i ran the update manager and it successfully installed 117 updates with no problems lol.

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fraterdqni (fraterdqni) said :
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Thanks Philip Newborough, that solved my question.