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update manager and synaptic package manager keep staling and pc hangs or locks up

Asked by Aurinia

According to my system there are 200 updates available but each time I try to run the updates my entire pc freezes up anywhere around file 2 to 6, which only leaves me with the option to do a hard reboot.

Any way to fix this or a way around it so I can install these updates without a freezing pc?

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This problem may be related to plymouth update (mostly with NVIDIA graphic cards), but not very sure.
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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Please try this:

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal

Tip: right click with mouse on the terminal title caption and select the item "Always on Top" doing this you will force the terminal window to stay on top of the other windows and you will find very easy to copy single row from this web page into the terminal...
Something more about using the terminal https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingTheTerminal

Then type or better copy and paste a row a time then press enter:
(Tip: select the single row to copy then right click into the terminal and to quick paste click with middle button of mouse )

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing install
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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Vikram Dhillon (dhillon-v10) said : 		#2

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Aron Xu
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Try doing the updates using the command line:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

see if that solves your problem :)

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Vikram Dhillon

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