youWho
September 7th, 2011, 04:33 PM
Hi. I've searched everywhere but nobody seems to have had this issue:
It started when one day I ran the "Update Manager" GUI app to install the regular updates, but somehow (I didn't do anything to interfere) there seemed to be a temporary file left in /tmp, and the update process would stop in the middle; it seemed that the updates had been downloaded, though I'm not sure anything else had been done, probably not. The only way to get out of that jam was to type return and/or ctl-c which would allow me to at least quit the Update Manager. For the last several weeks since this happened I've been updating by:
1. run the "Update Manager" and getting out of its stuck state by ctl-c and return;
2. restart, boot into recovery mode to "Fix broken packages";
3. restart.
That has worked, though it was a nuisance to have to do---until now. Just now it showed the same symptom in the console screen as was in the embedded terminal screen displayed by Update Manager: a seemingly leftover file in /tmp. Incidentally this file in /tmp changes name with each try. Now I seem to have no way to do a normal update---installing regular security updates for example.
If anybody has any solution for how I can get back to where the update process goes as it's supposed to please tell me. Thanks in advance.
It started when one day I ran the "Update Manager" GUI app to install the regular updates, but somehow (I didn't do anything to interfere) there seemed to be a temporary file left in /tmp, and the update process would stop in the middle; it seemed that the updates had been downloaded, though I'm not sure anything else had been done, probably not. The only way to get out of that jam was to type return and/or ctl-c which would allow me to at least quit the Update Manager. For the last several weeks since this happened I've been updating by:
1. run the "Update Manager" and getting out of its stuck state by ctl-c and return;
2. restart, boot into recovery mode to "Fix broken packages";
3. restart.
That has worked, though it was a nuisance to have to do---until now. Just now it showed the same symptom in the console screen as was in the embedded terminal screen displayed by Update Manager: a seemingly leftover file in /tmp. Incidentally this file in /tmp changes name with each try. Now I seem to have no way to do a normal update---installing regular security updates for example.
If anybody has any solution for how I can get back to where the update process goes as it's supposed to please tell me. Thanks in advance.