Software updater hangs after about 80%

[Richard Kimber]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2018 10:28:34 +0100
Richard Kimber <richardkimber at politicsresources.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 22:12:52 +0200
> Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
>
> > I tend to be reckless with removing lock files manually, wimps or
> > users without backups should check if a lock file is really unused,
> > before removing it.
> > 
> > https://askubuntu.com/questions/15433/unable-to-lock-the-administration-directory-var-lib-dpkg-is-another-process
> > https://askubuntu.com/questions/157196/unable-to-use-package-manager-due-to-exclusive-lock-error  
> 
> Thanks. I looked for apt processes, as one of your references
> suggested, and killed that. The software updater then ran and said it
> was checking for updates, but stopped at the point where it said
> "running post installation trigger linux-image-4.15.0-24-generic"

I then removed /var/lib/dpkg/lock  and did sudo dpkg --configure -a
from the command line. This does not return the prompt and ends with
"Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-22-generic"

- Richard
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Richard Kimber