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Daemon fails when I attempt to run Upadate Manager.

Asked by Ed Raicevic

I am trying to run update manager on my system (12.04 LTS) and when I click 'Install Updates' I get the following error message:

"Task cannot be monitored or controlled. The connection to the daemon was lost. Most likely, the background daemon crashed."

I have tried rebooting several times with no change. What do I do now?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Reboot and run:

sudo apt-get update

What is the full output please?

Thanks

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Ed Raicevic (raicevic) said : 		#2

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

ok and does:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install nano

install nano without an issue?

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Ed Raicevic (raicevic) said : 		#4

It appears that the install was successful. I have provided the output as follows:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  gir1.2-unique-3.0 gir1.2-ubuntuoneui-3.0 linux-headers-3.2.0-54 libubuntuoneui-3.0-1
  linux-headers-3.2.0-54-generic libtommath0 firefox-locale-xh
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 180 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main nano i386 2.2.6-1 [180 kB]
Fetched 180 kB in 1s (121 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 952681 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace nano 2.2.6-1 (using .../archives/nano_2.2.6-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement nano ...
Processing triggers for install-info ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 2 changed doc-base files...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up nano (2.2.6-1) ...

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Ed Raicevic (raicevic) said : 		#5

Andrew - Since my last update several things have happened.

   Firstly, the original problem with Update Manager appears to have been solved. I have started U.M. manually and it worked. All updates were installed successfully. The commands you provided (sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get --reinstall install nano) appear to have cleared the problem.

    Next, my system started to issue other error messages with other background elements that were failing. I reported the problems (as requested in the pop up window) and my system continued functioning. This was repeated several times.

    Finally, I reran sudo apt-get update in the hope that it would help clear what appeared to be the beginning of a new set of problems. When it finished running, U.M. started again and it downloaded a new version of the Linux kernel and all its associated elements (successfully). I rebooted as requested and I am now running fine (no other error messages of any kind)

I would say that this is problem solved. What's your opinion?

Regards.... Ed Raicevic

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

So no more issues?

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Ed Raicevic (raicevic) said : 		#7

No more issues..... Problem solved.

Thank you for your time and effort in this matter.

Ed Raicevic