Public bug reported: On what I thought was a somewhat up-to-date ubuntu 14.10 system, I noticed that lxc was out of date, so I ran update-manager in a terminal.
After half an hour, it hung. The last line in /var/log/apt/term.log was Setting up libapache2-mod-php5 (5.5.12+dfsg-2ubuntu4.1) ... The window where I ran update-manager shows ... debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome debconf: (Can't locate Gtk2.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Gtk2 module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20 /usr/share/perl/5.20 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 91.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Gnome debconf: (Can't locate Gtk2.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Gtk2 module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.20.1 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl5/5.20 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20 /usr/share/perl/5.20 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 91.) debconf: falling back to frontend: Dialog Use of uninitialized value $template in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Template.pm line 81, <> line 5. Use of uninitialized value $item in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 39, <> line 5. Use of uninitialized value $item in exists at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/DbDriver/Cache.pm line 39, <> line 5. Rebooting to the commandline, asking dpkg to finish configuring, and rebooting again, brought the system back. Here's the interesting-ish part of the output of ps: dank@dank:~$ ps augxw | grep -v 'Jan22' | grep root root 3868 0.0 0.0 19776 332 ? SNs 00:26 0:00 /usr/sbin/uuidd root 10772 0.0 0.0 4440 644 pts/28 SN+ 00:27 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache2-mod-php5.postinst configure 5.5.9+dfsg-1ubuntu4.5 root 10774 0.0 0.2 72336 14928 pts/28 SN+ 00:27 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /usr/bin/ucf /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini root 10802 0.0 0.0 25328 1200 pts/28 SN+ 00:27 0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/ucf /usr/share/php5/php.ini-production /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini ... root 28351 0.0 0.1 22484 9628 pts/28 SNs+ 00:23 0:01 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 73 --configure libc6-i386:amd 64 libc-dev-bin:amd64 linux-libc-dev:amd64 libc6-dev:amd64 libc6-dbg:amd64 libpcrecpp0:amd64 libpcre3-dev:amd64 libsepol1:amd64 libsepol1-dev:amd64 libselinux1-dev:amd64 libncursesw5:amd64 libtinfo-dev:amd64 libncurses5-dev:amd64 libbz2-dev :amd64 bzip2:amd64 libreadline6-dev:amd64 acl:amd64 attr:amd64 comerr-dev:amd64 libgpg-error-dev:amd64 libgcrypt11-dev:amd64 libpng12-0:amd64 libpng12-0:i386 libpng12-dev:amd64 libslang2-dev:amd64 libapt-inst1.5:amd64 libbsd0:amd64 libestr0:amd64 libexpat1:amd64 libexpat1:i386 libexpat1-dev:amd64 libffi6:amd64 libffi6:i386 libffi-dev:amd64 libgmp10:amd64 libgmpxx4ldbl:amd64 libgmp-dev:amd64 libmagic1:amd64 file:amd64 libmpdec2:amd64 libnettle4:amd64 libnewt0.52:amd64 libp11-kit0:i386 libp11-kit0:amd64 p11-kit-modules:i386 p11-kit-modules:amd64 libp11-kit-dev:amd64 libpopt0:amd64 libssl1.0.0:amd64 libssl1.0.0:i386 libpython3.4-minimal:amd64 python3.4-minimal:amd64 mime-support:all libsqlite3-0:amd64 libsqlite3-0:i386 libpython3.4-stdlib:amd64 python3.4:amd64 libpython3.4:amd64 libssl-doc:all libssl-dev:amd64 ntpdate:amd64 libsigsegv2:amd64 m4:amd64 autoconf:all libglib2.0-0:amd64 libglib2.0-0:i386 libdconf1:amd64 dconf-service:amd64 dconf-gsettings-backend:amd64 libpython2.7-minimal:amd64 python2.7-minimal:amd64 libpython2.7-stdlib:amd64 python2.7:amd64 python-minimal:amd64 libpython-stdlib:amd64 python:amd64 libglib2.0-data:all libglib2.0-bin:amd64 libtimedate-perl:all libdpkg-perl:all patch:amd64 make:amd64 binutils:amd64 dpkg-dev:all pkg-config:amd64 libglib2.0-dev:amd64 libpython2.7:amd64 libpython2.7-dev:amd64 python2.7-dev:amd64 python-all:amd64 libpython-dev:amd64 python-dev:amd64 python3-minimal:amd64 libpython3-stdlib:amd64 dh-python:all python3:amd64 devscripts:amd64 libdbus-1-3:amd64 libdbus-1-3:i386 libdbus-1-dev:amd64 libpciaccess0:amd64 libpciaccess0:i386 libdrm2:amd64 libdrm2:i386 libdrm-intel1:amd64 libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-radeon1:amd6 4 libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm-nouveau2:amd64 libdrm-nouveau2:i386 libdrm-dev:amd64 libgdbm3:amd64 libjson-c2:amd64 libjson-c2:i386 libkmod2:amd64 libnih1:amd64 libnih1:i386 libnih-bus1:amd64 libnih-dbus1:i386 libprocps3:amd64 libsemanage-common:all libsemanage1:amd64 module-init-tools:all python3-cairo:amd64 libgirepository-1.0-1:amd64 gir1.2-glib-2.0:amd64 python3-gi:amd64 python3-gi-cairo:amd64 gir1.2-freedesktop:amd64 ucf:all fontconfig-config:all libfreetype6:amd64 libfreetype6:i386 libfontconfig1:amd64 libfontconfig1:i386 libfreetype6-dev:amd64 libfontconfig1-dev:amd64 libicu52:amd64 icu-devtools:amd64 libicu-dev:amd64 libgraphite2-3:amd64 libharfbuzz0b:amd64 libharfbuzz-icu0:amd64 libharfbuzz-gobject0:amd 64 libharfbuzz-dev:amd64 fontconfig:amd64 libpango-1.0-0:amd64 libpangoft2-1.0-0:amd64 libpangocairo-1.0-0:amd64 libx11-data:all libx11-6:amd64 libx11-6:i386 libxft2:amd64 libpangoxft-1.0-0:amd64 gir1.2-pango-1.0:amd64 libxdmcp6:amd64 libxdmcp6:i386 x11proto-core-dev:all libxdmcp-dev:amd64 x11proto-input-dev:all xtrans-dev:all libx11-dev:amd64 libxft-dev:amd 64 libpango1.0-dev:amd64 libpango1.0-0:amd64 xkb-data:all libx11-doc:all libatk1.0-data:all libatk1.0-0:amd64 gir1.2-atk-1.0:amd64 libatk1.0-dev:amd64 libxml2:amd64 libxml2:i386 libxml2-dev:amd64 libcroco3:amd64 libjasper1:amd64 libjbig0:amd64 libjbig0:i386 libtiff5:amd64 libtiff5:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common:all libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:amd64 librsvg2-2:amd64 librsvg2-common:amd64 gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0:amd64 gir1.2-rsvg-2.0:amd64 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev:amd64 librsvg2-dev:amd64 libjasper-dev:amd64 libjbig-dev:amd64 libtiffxx5:amd64 libtiff5-dev:amd64 libvte-2.90-common:all libvte-2.90-9:amd64 gir1.2-vte-2.90:amd64 python-apt-common:all python3-apt:amd64 python-apt:amd64 aptdaemon-data:all python3-pkg-resources:all iso-codes:all python3-aptdaemon:all python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets:all libpackagekit-glib2-16:amd64 gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0:amd64 python3-aptdaemon.pkcompat:all aptdaemon:all libasprintf0c2:amd64 libasprintf-dev:amd64 gettext-base:amd64 libjava scriptcoregtk-3.0-0:amd64 myspell-en-za:all myspell-en-gb:all hunspell-en-us:all ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: bot-comment -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1414070 Title: update-manager hung in /var/lib/dpkg/info/libapache2-mod-php5.postinst To manage 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