[Bug 1351404] Re: Installing updates freezes while setting up grub-pc

[Zarniwoop]

I guess this won't help very many people, but if you're encountering
this in VirtualBox like I do you can get passed the update if you have a
backup of your image.

Paul Brown wrote that he thinks that grub setup wants to open a
terminal-like window. Thank you for that comment. Because of that I
tried doing "sudo apt-get upgrade" in a terminal window instead of using
the software updater. And as he had predicted, after a while I got a
window looking similar to the traditional Linux installation gui where I
got to choose which harddrive or partition to put grub on, I chose one
and then the update completed. I just rebooted and seems to work fine.

Of course this doesn't solve the problem for anyone who gets it on a
"real" computer and/or without backup, but I thought it worth mentioning
here for people using VirtualBox.

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Title:
  Installing updates freezes while setting up grub-pc

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm installing updates for the last couple of weeks on a virtual machine running under VirtualBox. It got to Setting up grub-pc (2.02-beta2-9ubuntu1)... then it stayed there for 25 minutes before I shut down the virtual box and restored a snapshot.
  Running top shows me that aptd is running at about 25% CPU on a 4 CPU virtual machine.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: update-manager 1:0.196.12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-30.54-generic 3.13.11.2
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-30-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.2
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri Aug  1 10:36:16 2014
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
  GsettingsChanges:
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'484'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1406912611'
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-20 (72 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.4
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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