Update Manager Hanging

[Derek Broughton]

NoOp wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 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.

And if it's hanging _after_ getting the password (don't you need to give
update-manager the password before it starts downloading?) that just seems
to be typical of any of the apt methods.  I find that anything that causes
slowdowns on the download will tend to hang the apt process.  From work,
it's notorious - I can wget the file in seconds, but frequently get hung
forever using any package manager.  otoh, from home, where I have a tenth
of the bandwidth, I rarely have a problem.  It _seems_ to be related to the
fact that there's some bandwidth throttling on the work connection - I
can't get more than 100kBps for more than about a minute before it
throttles me down to 10k or less.
-- 
derek