Software updater no longer functional

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Hmmm.  It works for me....

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 1:51 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:

> About a week ago I noticed that my indicator for the software updater
> had turned into the "do not enter" road sign (a red circle with a
> horizontal white line in it).
>
> If I click on it, it shows me the menu, but none of the menu items works.
>
> If I open the settings app and click on the software updater once, it
> does nothing.  If I double click it, it says I have stopped previous
> updates from functioning and shows them.  However, if I click on the
> Install Now button, the updater small frame window comes up empty and
> never shows anything.
>
> I posted about some of this a while back when it was getting errors
> with the debconf library, but that was solved, or so I thought, by
> using Synaptic to update that library.  It seems this was not a
> complete fix.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Xubuntu 16.04.1 all the latest updates.
>
> Attached is a text file showing the output that comes up when I run
> this from a terminal window.
>
> Thanks.
> MR
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