Long pause duign apt updates

[Peter Flynn]

On 01/05/18 20:52, Nataraj wrote:
> On 04/26/2018 04:05 AM, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> Why is there always a loooooong pause (at leasta  minute, maybe more) at
>> THIS exact stage of any apt or apt-get upgrade:
>>
>> Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2ubuntu0.1) ...
>> Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
>> Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
>>
>> Is there something going on that need fixing? This has been happening on
>> everything from 16.04 onwards, and it happens on Ubuntu-based systems
>> like Mint as well.
>>
>> ///Peter
>>
> I would look for problems with your dns configuration or other
> networking issues, packet loss etc.  I don't see any issues with this on
> my Ubuntu systems.

It occurs on my home machines, my work machines, and my university
machines, so I don't think it's related to the individual connections'
DNS settings, but as they're all in the same country, I guess it's
possible there is an upstream problem. Thanks for the suggestion.

///Peter