Comment 4 for bug 188957

I am experiencing something similar in the final Hardy Heron release. When I run Update Manager from the applet it hangs just before asking for my password. This has been happening ever since I upgraded (in-place) to Heron from Gutsy. I have tried letting it run for hours and killing it and restarting it but nothing works. Killing Update Manager and then running "aptitude safe-upgrade" from the command line works fine.

One other clue that pointed me to this issue was that my machine is having trouble resolving it's host name for some reason. The "hostname" command works fine but adding any options fails with a "hostname: Unknown hostname" error. My /etc/hosts file looks fine but I'm guessing that something is messed up somewhere.