Apper problem

[Bill vance]

On 10/18/12, Mark Fraser <mfraz74+ubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 Oct 2012 09:33:09 Bill vance wrote:
>> Howdy folks;
>>
>> The notifier button in the panel told me I had a bunch of updates
>> waiting,
>> so I clicked it, and the apper window opened.  I looked them over,
>> clicked
>> on, "apply", and it down loaded them.  When it was done, it locked itself
>> into this mode that required me to check for new updates, not allowing or
>> doing anything else.  So I clicked on the check button, and it displayed
>> a list of software, and said something to the effect that it couldn't
>> deal
>> with setting them up, and completely locked up.
>
> I'm wondering if that is the same thing I've been experiencing with Flash on
>
> all the computers here? It installed all the updates, but then I saw a light
>
> bulb icon in the system tray. I clicked on it and it said something about
> needing to update Flash which then opened an empty Konsole window.


Doesn't sound like it.


>> Now it won't do anything at all, and won't allow anything else, (apt-get
>> et al), to do anything either.
>>
>> So now I apparently have a bunch of updates frozen up somewhere on my
>> machine, and have no idea what to do about them, or the latchup.
>>
>> Anyone got a clue?
>
> What happens if you open up Konsole and do:
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade


Well, this happens:


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.