Update Manager Hanging

[NoOp]

On 10/29/2008 08:22 AM, Kipton Moravec wrote:
> I have not had any problems with update manager until about two weeks
> ago.
> 
> It would hang and say it was downloading, and nothing would happen. I
> could leave it for an hour and still no change. Finally I would kill the
> process and restart and sometimes it would go and sometimes hang
> again.  
>  
> One time I had to do the check button first, then the install would work
> fine.
> 
> Today I tried the check and it is hanging during the check. According to
> the system monitor the process is sleeping. Memory is 459.1 MB out of
> 1.5GB and Swap is 0 out of 453 MB. The network is < 1 kb per second so
> it is not because the computer is overloaded.
> 
> When it hangs it is before it asks for the password.
> 
> This time I had to try 3 times before it finally worked. Any Ideas?
> 


If it is hanging before the password then it probably is related to this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gksu/+bug/187982
[ update-manager fails to bring up the password prompt for root
privileges] Warning, it's a long read.

Can you post the output of:

cat /etc/hosts

Try running from the terminal first:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

See if you notice any sources errors of the first one. On the second,
you should see errors if any of the packages are not upgrading properly.