Update manager issues

[Bashing-om]

donaldt;
Still hang'n in there with you and the others helping you. Your attention is invited to arpanaut;s response.
Mine is the same, I have never seen such an error and had no idea as to how to proceed. arpanaut's approach is reasonable. See if the advise clears up that issue.

try'n to help

[donaldt]

Here is the output from your ls -l command:

total 1258088
-rw-rw-r-- 1 donald donald 0 May 28 2012 192.168.1.11
drwx------ 4 donald donald 4096 Jan 27 2012 AMUR
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 1844 Apr 12 2010 beatles.m3u
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 1844 Apr 12 2010 Beatles.m3u
drwxr-xr-x 2 donald donald 4096 Jun 25 2010 bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 20992 May 28 2012 Bio_2011_Don Taylor.doc
-rw------- 1 donald donald 187254 May 24 2008 biz card 4.bmp
-rw------- 1 donald donald 632603328 Feb 11 15:16 brasero-0.bin
-rw------- 1 donald donald 1789 Feb 11 15:16 brasero-0.cue
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 3112960 Jun 16 2010 brasero-0.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 133120 Aug 24 2010 brasero-1.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 133120 Aug 24 2010 brasero-2.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 133120 Aug 24 2010 brasero-3.iso
-rw------- 1 donald donald 632603328 Feb 11 15:04 brasero.bin
-rw------- 1 donald donald 1787 Feb 11 15:04 brasero.cue
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 3112960 Jun 11 2010 brasero.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 18432 Oct 8 2011 Buyers Agent Agreement.doc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 6 15:32 cat
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 22528 Apr 4 2010 Class _of_48.doc
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 358522 May 7 2012 C:\nppdf32Log\debuglog.txt
drwxr-xr-x 11 donald donald 4096 Mar 10 10:18 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 3 donald donald 4096 Feb 25 13:11 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 3 donald donald 4096 Dec 9 08:13 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 2 donald donald 4096 Dec 27 2011 dropbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 0 Apr 20 2010 evo.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 167 Dec 29 2009 examples.desktop
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 30819 Jan 2 2012 Firefox_wallpaper.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 6 15:32 gedit
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 6 15:32 gksudo
drwxrwxrwx 8 donald donald 4096 Jul 19 2010 gtkpod-1.0.0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 donald donald 12888 Oct 22 2009 hard_light.ttf
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 397448 Jan 25 2011 hpsc4.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 43173 Jun 11 2010 inbox.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 56751 Dec 10 2011 installed-software
lrwxrwxrwx 1 donald donald 34 Dec 6 10:18 Link to Firefox_wallpaper.png -> /home/donald/Firefox_wallpaper.png
drwx------ 13 donald donald 4096 Feb 11 14:23 Memorex_1G_USB
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 569 Mar 27 2010 more atunes.m3u
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 0 Mar 20 2010 msic084.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 0 Mar 20 2010 msic672.tmp
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 0 Mar 20 2010 msic6a2.tmp
drwxr-xr-x 2 donald donald 12288 Nov 22 13:07 Music
drwx------ 2 donald donald 4096 May 29 2012 PDF
drwxr-xr-x 2 donald donald 4096 May 9 2011 Photo folder
drwxr-xr-x 5 donald donald 4096 May 21 2012 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 donald donald 4096 Dec 29 2009 Public
-rw-rw-r-- 1 donald donald 254381 Sep 10 16:23 Quabain.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 365 Mar 27 2010 random aTunes songs.m3u
drwxr-xr-x 3 donald donald 4096 Jan 23 2012 scandocs_#214
-rw-r--r-- 1 donald donald 1538 Mar 27 2010 still more atunes.m3u
drwxr-xr-x 2 donald donald 4096 Dec 29 2009 Templates
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3872 May 12 2010 testdisk.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13568059 Mar 8 08:58 tmp.txt
drwxrwxr-x 2 donald donald 4096 Apr 27 2010 Ubuntu One
drwx------ 4 donald donald 4096 Jan 27 2012 UHWW_summer_2011
drwxrwxr-x 2 donald donald 4096 Sep 15 16:11 Untitled Folder
drwxr-xr-x 2 donald donald 4096 Nov 28 16:31 Videos
drwxr-xr-x 3 donald donald 4096 Jun 11 2011 VirtualBox VMs
drwxr-xr-x 2 donald donald 4096 Feb 25 2010 WAC photos
donald@donald-Aspire-3810T:~$

I have never knowingly used chmod or chown on my home files.

Thanks!

donaldt

[schragge]

Well, the right command here would be not ls -l, but ls -ld or ls -l /home. Anyway, try

sudo chown donald: .

There are also some files owned by root in your home directory. To change ownership of them, try

sudo chown donald: *

Some of those files were clearly created by mistake, after changing their ownership, you may as well remove them:

rm cat gedit gksudo

[donaldt]

I will try that and wait for more updates to see if anything changes.

Thanks for the help!

donaldt

[donaldt]

I just had 3 updates show up in update manager, so I tried it again. There is no change. When I click update it locks up update manager about 50% toward completion.


Basically, nothing has changed with update manager for all the file examining and checking of files we have done so far.

What is next??

thanks,

donaldt

[schragge]

I noticed there's tmp.txt in your home folder. I guess it's the output of strace. Could you please proceed with the file like matt_symes suggested in that post, and make its contents available to us?

[donaldt]

Per your request, here is the output requested in that post:

donald@donald-Aspire-3810T:~$ sudo sed -i -e '/google/s/^deb/# deb/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list
[sudo] password for donald:
donald@donald-Aspire-3810T:~$ sudo apt-get clean
donald@donald-Aspire-3810T:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
donald@donald-Aspire-3810T:~$
donald@donald-Aspire-3810T:~$ gksudo update-manager

Update manager opened, but there were no updates available, so it just said the software on this computer is up to date

donaldt

[schragge]

Sorry, I meant the last part of Matt's post, i.e.

tail -n500 ~/tmp.txt > tmp2.txt

zip update-mgr tmp2.txt

and posting update-mgr.zip here as an attachment.

[donaldt]

OK, I found that file in the home directory. I zipped it. Here is the link.


file:///home/donald/Desktop/update-mgr.zip

[Bashing-om]

donaldt; As I continue to monitor this thread;
The file "file:///home/donald/Desktop/update-mgr.zip "
needs to be posted to this thread as an "attachment" so that the file is downladed to the thread,

my small effort to help