[Bug 1778359] Re: Software Updater hangs on "Waiting for packagekitd to exit"

[Mustafa Öncel]

Still happens on 21.04. sudo systemctl stop <pid of packagekitd> fixes
it temporarily on my system. Restarting the computer did not help by the
way. Packagekitd was always starting at boot, not sure why. It works
sometimes though, not much critical and can be fixed by stopping
packagekitd but it always frustrates me. Maybe packagekitd should get
some sort of timeout or such? Don't know much about what it does.

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Title:
  Software Updater hangs on "Waiting for packagekitd to exit"

Status in update-manager package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Software Updater not used in about 2 months on this test machine.

  See screenshot.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: update-manager 1:18.04.11
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
  Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Sat Jun 23 16:49:07 2018
  DpkgHistoryLog.txt:
   
  DpkgTerminalLog.txt:
   
  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'645'
   b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'int64 1529786763'
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-03 (50 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180425.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.6
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  Python3Details: /usr/bin/python3.6, Python 3.6.5, python3-minimal, 3.6.5-3
  PythonDetails: /usr/bin/python2.7, Python 2.7.15rc1, python-minimal, 2.7.15~rc1-1
  SourcePackage: update-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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