Software updater hangs after about 80%

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 at 18:27, Richard Kimber
<richardkimber at politicsresources.net> wrote:
>
> It's USB. It has 4 slots, so I suppose that accounts for the sdk.

Would only seem to account for h/i/j/k but maybe if some slots do
different types of media, then they'd take >1 letter up. I don't
actually have a modern one of these things; the only modern media I
use are µSD and all my machines have built-in readers for those. As a
result I am not familiar with their foibles.

> The
> reader was plugged in, but no card was plugged into the reader.

Yes, you mentioned, and in theory, it should not induce this bug if
there are no volume(s) mounted.

> I've
> taken the reader out now, so I guess I'll kill the update process.  Is
> it both of these?
>
> 4762 pts/3    SN+
> 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-4.15.0-24-generic.postinst
> triggered linux-update-4.15.0-24-generic
>
> 25451 ?        SNl
> 0:08 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/update-manager --no-update
> --no-focus-on-map

Ah, it was happening from the GUI, not the CLI? Hm. I would suggest
the latter first, then a retry, and if that doesn't work, then the
former.

To retry, open a shell  (Ctrl+Alt+T) and type:

sudo apt full-upgrade -y

If it complains of errors, try:

sudo apt install -f


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