Software updater hangs after about 80%

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 at 16:02, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> This sounds like a thread from a week or two ago.  Check whether you
> have any stuck remote mounts or similar that might cause 'sync' to hang;
> unmounting them may well help.

I was about to say the same.

There's a known bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1667512

You might want to mark that this applies to you.

Kill the update process, unmount all drives except absolute essentials
-- root and home -- and try again. I suggest _not_ rebooting until you
do that!

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