update manager hangs after partial distribution upgrade

[Charles Lowell]

Binary package hint: update-manager

1)
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

2)
update-manager:
  Installed: 1:0.93.21
  Candidate: 1:0.93.21
  Version table:
 *** 1:0.93.21 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
3)
I expected the update manager to complete after finishing the "partial distribution upgrade"

4)

It hangs in the "cleaning up" phase. The last message on the console was "ldconfig deferred processing now taking place"
I've left it for over an hour, so it should have completed and closed the window by now.

Screenshot attached.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: update-manager 1:0.93.21
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-6-generic x86_64

[Charles Lowell (cowboyd-thefrontside)]

After killing the process, and updating again, It happened again, this time after "processing triggers for man-db"

I don't think this is a harmful or dangerous hang. It looks like all the important stuff is getting run to completion, but for some reason the process doesn't know to close itself down after everything gets run.

[Ahmad Tarek (ahmadtarek)]

I got the same thing today while updating Ubuntu 8.10 beta.

I restarted the computer and it seems that all the updates are installed correctly.

[Nospunosaj (jupsonrolling)]

I have been able to reproduce this problem as well.

Every time I attempt to run the upgrade manager after running the partial upgrade, which hangs on clean up, I am asked to run the partial upgrade again. The same process repeats itself.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, this bug is a duplicate of bug 280236 and is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround in it. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.