Software updater hangs after about 80%

[Richard Kimber]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 19:01:01 +0200
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 at 18:49, Richard Kimber
> <richardkimber at politicsresources.net> wrote:
> 
> > The latter worked ok, but sudo apt full-upgrade -y just gave a help
> > message listing the commands  
> 
> Hmmm. I thought ``apt'' was fully implemented in 16.04 but if not the
> older ``apt-get'' equivalent is:
> 
> sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

I'm using 18.04

> So there's still an operation running.
> 
> > I tried killing the other process, but it remains in the list.  
> 
> How did you try, please?
> 
> sudo kill [pid]
> ...?
> 
> sudo kill -9 [pid]
> ...?
> 

I used sudo kill -HUP [pid]

but I've now used -9 and that has worked. However, sudo apt install -f
still complains about not getting lock.

- Richard
-- 
Richard Kimber