I also have a similar issue... When the update-notifier tells me updates are available, I click the notifier icon in the panel, and the update manager starts, but the root password prompt never appears. The update manager just sits there waiting, with a "busy" mouse pointer if I hover over it.
To get the update to happen, I have to use sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade and then not all the updates/grades are carried out. Linux-generic, linux-headers2.6.24-18, linux-headers2.6.24-18-generic, etc (11 in total)...all keep coming up again as not having been installed. I have tried well over three dozens times over a period of two months without success to do a full upgrade. This seems to be a serious error in Ubuntu Hardy Heron - released in April 2008. -- Update Manager freezes when clicking "install updates" after having cancelled root password insertion https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149435 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
