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<body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 02:20:55 +0100, Leif Pihl <leif@pihl.us> wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0.80ex; border-left: #0000FF 2px solid; padding-left: 1ex"><div>Tonight, circa 6:10-ish pm Central, I turned on the HDTV (the main video out from the MythTV box), and got the Upgrade Manager box superimposed over the MythTV frontend. It said I had (roughly) 14 files that were out of date, including MythTV Frontend and Xxxxxxx (can't remember the phrase). I figured, hey, I've got almost 50 minutes, and keeping the MythTV Frontend up to date sounds relevant, SURE! So I clicked continue. The system then downloaded all the files (I had the "details" arrow/triangle pointing down) and then it seemed to get stuck at the point I mentioned up-message, when it said "reconfiguring packets", or something like that. </div><div><br></div><div>I waited, and so did the kids, and waited, then I finally switched the HDTV's input over to the DVD. </div><div>When I later switched the HDTV's input back to the MythTV box, the same two windows were on the screen ("Update Manager" and "Applying Changes").</div><div>However, these same two windows had their boxes white, or they did not have their graphical display updated. In addition, the top "bars" that identify the windows are also bleached out.</div><div>This situation remains in effect as I type this; it's NOT yet been reset. </div><div><br></div></blockquote><br><div>I've seen a similar thing on my Mythbuntu 12.04 system. </div><div><br></div><div>Sometimes the installation of updates requires additional configuration, ie. you have to answer questions about keeping a modified configuration file or using new one, or such like. It's generally straightforward but the update process pops up dialog windows to enact this. When using Update Manager these dialogs don't appear (in my experience). So the process hangs on "configuring packages" (without redrawing its windows) because it's waiting for you to click Yes/No on the dialog that you can't see! As far as I am aware the only option is to reboot and end up with a partial update...<br></div><div><br></div><div>My recommendation is NEVER USE UPDATE MANAGER. Configure it to never ever show notifications or do updates. Aside from the irritation of the nag screens interrupting your TV viewing, the relentless, tempting invitations to 'improve' your functioning appliance often do exactly the opposite, as you have found. The other pitfall is that when it fails, I've never found an *easy* way to find out what it was trying to do at the time.</div><div><br></div><div>Others here are better qualified to sort out your partial update, probably using apt-get and/or dpkg. But a simple, reliable GUI update manager is Synaptic Package Manager (install it with "sudo apt-get install synaptic"). I don't know if it will/can resolve your partial update but it won't do any harm to try, and I suggest you use it for all your future updates (when you decide to). It does display the additional pop-ups correctly and also keeps a history of what it's done - very useful for the next time!</div><br></body></html>