Software Updater broken on 16.04.x

[Colin Law]

On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 13:11, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/10/2018, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > On one of my computers running UbuntuMATE 16.04.x, the Software
> > Updater shows "Updated software is available for this computer. ..."
> > and "323.1MB will be downloaded.".
> >
> > But, it now does not display a (selectable/deselectable) list of what
> > packages are to be downloaded/updated/installed/removed/changed.
> >
> > This also occurs after the computer is rebooted.
> >
> > I am not aware of any setting to conceal what packages are to be changed.
> >
> > What is happening?
> >
>
> I note that
>
> 1. I have had an off-list reply, indicating that someone else had the
> same problem, and decided to implement the update anyway, resulting in
> lots of breakages, and
>
> 2, MeTV now also no longer works.
>
> So, with the last reboot having implemented all of a previous set of
> updates, the previous set of updates has apparently caused harm.
>

What does
sudo apt update
show, and then
sudo apt list --upgradable

Colin
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