As a further note, the window in which the update-install proceeds is too large to fit on a 1024x600 display when the terminal-sub-window is open - it makes it very difficult to see what step the installation is at when it hangs up for hours. If you look at the VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz you can see a bunch of stuff on the terminal-log at the place where it was hung up - I was trying to type Shift-tabs at the window to try to get to what I though might be some invisible buttons below the visible portion of the screen. Eventually, the terminal-sub-window scrolled up because the of the junk I was typing so I could see where the installation was hanging. The terminal-sub-window ought to only open large enough to fit on the screen, and/or there needs to be some way to resize the entire window to fit on the screen.
The error that is logged here in the bug report resulted from me sending a kill signal to the process that was hung. At that point the installation proceeded without the update-notifier-common package being upgraded, and the install-script went back at a later point and reinstalled this and several other packages that failed installation because they, too, were attempting to download additional software during the install-phase rather than the download-phase. Perhaps its the case that this apparently hung process would have terminated after some additional hours, but it was certainly testing my patience. I gather that this clumsy process results from the use of third-party software that can't be kept in the usual repositories, but it shouldn't be happening this way - surely the package manager could be configured to load the third-party software along with all the other .deb files during the download-phase of the upgrade installation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/990121 Title: package update-notifier-common 0.119ubuntu8.1 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 143 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/990121/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
