Comment 5 for bug 138393

I dug further into the update-manager bugs, and found one that wasn't related to package downloads. It had someone remove nfs-common and do the update, and since I had nfs-common on the machine (and it doesn't use NFS) I removed it. Now the update is downloading packages...

On the report I found, after the update rebooted it was hosed, though (apparent /etc/fstab issues), so we'll see what happens :-)