Muon update manager started a massive update download. It was iterative, some things to be updated needed other things to be updated. At some point in the middle of all this everything stalled, then didn't go to completion but update manager no longer reported any updates. Then I got a dialog to report the bug and I agreed and I got a dialog that the bug report software isn't present and did I want it. So I clicked get the bug report software and that process had a bug and stalled and couldn't get the bug report software.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: software-properties-common 0.92.27
Uname: Linux 3.9.0-999-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs wl fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 27 14:57:17 2013
DuplicateSignature: package:software-properties-common:0.92.27:package software-properties-common is already installed and configured
ErrorMessage: package software-properties-common is already installed and configured
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-12-22 (309 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: dpkg
Title: package software-properties-common 0.92.27 failed to install/upgrade: package software-properties-common is already installed and configured
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-26 (0 days ago)
This is no more a supported version now