Thanks Saravanan - actually, I have to add now that I had to kill Update Manager as well - and it was stuck at Samba too. After rebooting I ran dpkg --configure -a as described above, then it crashed.
Thanks Saravanan - actually, I have to add now that I had to kill Update Manager as well - and it was stuck at Samba too. After rebooting I ran dpkg --configure -a as described above, then it crashed.