Software updater no longer functional

[MR ZenWiz]

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 5:23 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 27 January 2017 at 22:00, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > No errors, no conflicts, everything looks fine.
> >
> > I just noticed something different - when I click on the red circle,
> > there is a greyed out message that says "A problem occurred when
> > checking for the updates."  Then I click on "Show Updates" nad they
> > show, but they don't update.  I have to use the command line to get
> > the updates.
>
>
> I've had that too. I regard it as a visual glitch and ignore it.
>
> Have you tried an apt cleanup?
>
> sudo apt clean
> sudo apt autoremove
> sudo apt purge
>
> ... then reboot.
>

This problem has not gone away, but despite the blank window (see
attached), it shows up in top as doing something, though what I don't
know and it never finishes an update..

Only happens on my desktop, which has a fresh installation of Xubuntu
16.04.1 plus updates running since I installed the SSD for my /root.
On the three other machines to which I have access and run Xubuntu
16.04, this is the only one with the problem.

Thanks.
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