Jaunty Update Manager is broken

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:05:36 -0600
Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 	I woke up this morning with Update Manager almost but not
> quite fully functional. I could not get it to d/l the updates so I
> opened a terminal and used update and upgrade and got the updates.
> 
> 	Update Manager will not quit, work or nothing. I am going to
> use the update Manager to delete this but it refused. It said use the
> synastic package manager but now THAT will not come up even after
> giving it the root password!
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> 	So I am going to leave Jaunty for good. It is really broken
> BAD!
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> 73 Karl

Guess:
Update manager crashed leaving it's lock on (that's why it won't go
away or do anything). SynaPtic won't run while another package manager
is running (probably told you so in an error message).
 
Possible solution:
Kill the remains of Update manager (use top, htop, or, my GUI
preference, gps), then re-try synaPtic.
I imagine that killing the X server and re-starting would accomplish
the same thing.

Or you could leave Jaunty for good, heck, even Linux.  There's a good
OS for your use at:
http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
or:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

It's your choice.

Remember the Linux warranty:
If it breaks you get to keep both pieces.

Cybe R. Wizard
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