System Update froze - UbuntuMATE 16-04

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 04:55:39PM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 19 June 2018 at 18:40, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.122ubuntu8.11)...
> > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.0-127-generic
> 
> Perhaps you are hitting this bug [1].  For them the solution was to
> make sure nothing else is going on in the background while doing the
> update and if you have any NFS drives mounted to unmount them first.
> At least I think that is their solution following a quick skim
> through.
[...]
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/1667512

Ah yes.  I've posted a suggested solution; I don't have time to prepare
an update right now but hopefully another developer will pick it up.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]