Apper problem

[Mark Fraser]

On Thursday 18 Oct 2012 09:33:09 Bill vance wrote:
> Howdy folks;
> 
> The notifier button in the panel told me I had a bunch of updates waiting,
> so I clicked it, and the apper window opened.  I looked them over, clicked
> on, "apply", and it down loaded them.  When it was done, it locked itself
> into this mode that required me to check for new updates, not allowing or
> doing anything else.  So I clicked on the check button, and it displayed
> a list of software, and said something to the effect that it couldn't deal
> with setting them up, and completely locked up.

I'm wondering if that is the same thing I've been experiencing with Flash on 
all the computers here? It installed all the updates, but then I saw a light 
bulb icon in the system tray. I clicked on it and it said something about 
needing to update Flash which then opened an empty Konsole window.

> Now it won't do anything at all, and won't allow anything else, (apt-get
> et al), to do anything either.
> 
> So now I apparently have a bunch of updates frozen up somewhere on my
> machine, and have no idea what to do about them, or the latchup.
> 
> Anyone got a clue?

What happens if you open up Konsole and do:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade