Software updater hangs after about 80%

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 02.07.2018, 14:52 +0100 schrieb Richard Kimber:
> 
> Thanks for responding. I should have mentioned I'm using 18.04 on a
> 64
> bit machine. Presumably i386 is irrelevant ??
> 
i386 will be relevant for wine, steam etc ... all packages that are
using i386 multiarch stuff. if you do not use any such packages it is
indeed irrelevant ...

> >   
> > that looks actually like it finishes properly after generating the
> > initrd and grub configs ... did you give it some time ? perhaps it
> > is
> > just slow ...
> It's been stuck at that point for well over an hour ....

yeah, i meant more like "wait for 5-10 min instead of 1-2" :)
> 
> Should I just reboot? Or is there something else crucial that the
> update needs to do after this?  I guess if not then a reboot is the
> best option ??
> 

i'd just reboot and hope for the best ... worst case you can always use
the grub menu to go back to the former boot set up (and kernel) if
anything goes wrong ...

ciao
	oli
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 181 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20180702/c452fe20/attachment.sig>