{"id":33,"date":"2008-05-17T19:34:32","date_gmt":"2008-05-17T10:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=33"},"modified":"2008-05-17T19:34:32","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T10:34:32","slug":"update-manager-hangs-in-ubuntu-804-and-how-to-fix-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/update-manager-hangs-in-ubuntu-804-and-how-to-fix-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Update Manager hangs in Ubuntu 8.04 (and how to fix it)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I upgraded my notebook from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 (&#8220;Hardy Heron&#8221;). Since then, whenever I tried tried to install the up to 133 updates that had become available, the Update Manager would hang indefinitely instead of prompting me for the user password.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the same situation, the following tips might help you. Edit \/etc\/hosts with an editor of your choice (e.g. sudo vi \/etc\/hosts). There should be two entries with IPv4 addresses starting with 127.0.x.x, like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>127.0.0.1 localhost<br \/>\n127.0.1.1 mycomputername.mydomain\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Remove the domain name from the entry starting with 127.0.1.1, leaving only the computer name and save the file. Now try again. <\/p>\n<p>When I made this change I got the password prompt as expected and all the updates where downloaded and applied.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month I upgraded my notebook from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 (&#8220;Hardy Heron&#8221;). Since then, whenever I tried tried to install the up to 133 updates that had become available, the Update Manager would hang indefinitely instead of prompting me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/17\/update-manager-hangs-in-ubuntu-804-and-how-to-fix-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-linux","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}