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kev
Asked: 2012-06-11 07:54:49 +0800 CST

How to cancel Update Manager downloading flashplugin-installer?

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Update Manger has frozen for about 60min when downloading flashplugin-installer.
And the Cancel button of Applying Changes dialog is disabled.
When I click the top-left x, it doesn't response.
How to cancel downloading flashplugin-installer?

...SKIP...
Setting up libxatracker1 (8.0.2-0ubuntu3.1) ...
Setting up update-manager-core (1:0.156.14.5) ...
Setting up update-manager (1:0.156.14.5) ...
Setting up update-notifier-common (0.119ubuntu8.4) ...
flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_11.2.202.236.orig.tar.gz
flash

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    It doesn't take much time to install flashplugin. To check whether update is still working (downloading/installing) check the output of this command:
    ps aux | grep http
    This will result in 2 or 3 lines with the second column of each line being the pid of the process if the process is doing its job. If the result is just 1 line, say the last phrase being grep http or something, the updates are not being downloaded/installed. Its safe to kill the update manager
    To do this:
    run: ps aux | grep update and note the pid of the update-manager being the second column after your user name in the 2/3 line list of output. Let the pid of update-manager be pid
    Kill this process by running:
    kill -9 pid
    If operation is not permitted, try with sudo, but take care that you don't kill any other process. Note the pid of update-manager carefully.

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  2. The download will never start for many people, I knew it.

    Something wrong as the server too slow or just not able to ping back.

    See the "featured/headline" thread in Ubuntuforums.org for instance.

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  3. Here's what I did (during a distribution upgrade, so it was critical):

    First I found the stuck process (number 12123 in my case):

    > pstree -p
├─gksu(7266)─┬─precise(9756)
│            ├─precise(9757)─┬dpkg(24158)─update-notifier(19121)─package-data-do(19123)
│            │               └{precise}(9759)

    Then I helped out with bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/1243090 . By running "sudo gdb" then "attach 19123" and "bt" to create a backtrace. The backtrace helps the volunteers determine what's wrong.

    Finally I used "sudo kill 19123" and received error message "Could not install 'update-notifier-common'" "subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 143".

    The rest of the install then completed without incident. Dealing with flash can come another day.

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