It hung again this morning on an update. Interestingly, it also hung when I viewing the details of the packages to be updated. On both occasions the results of "sudo id" was
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),126(vboxusers),1001(usbusers) I ran pstree -A after it hung when I was viewing the updates and when it was installing them. I also ran a ps -ef when it hung during update, that showed /usr/bin/gksu --desktop /usr/share/applications/update-manager.desktop -- /usr/sbin/synaptic --hide-main-window --non-interactive --parent- window-id 33554435 -o Synaptic::closeZvt=true --progress-str Please wait, this can take some time. --finish-str Update is complete --set- selections-file /tmp/tmpUUTxFO I've also included the file /tmp/tmpUUTxFO The last update listed (openoffice.org-l10n-en-za) in the above file, and this may just be coincidental, was also the package I was trying to look at the details of when it hung. ** Attachment added: "pstree -A when viewing" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15400963/pstree%20-A%20%28View%29 -- Update Manager hangs in 8.04 LTS https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239358 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs