Comments on: Update Manager hangs in Ubuntu 8.04 (and how to fix it)

By: Alan Weeks

Alan Weeks — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:24:46 +0000

Thanks! I had no idea what was causing problem.
Your comment fixed it.

Alan Weeks

By: Lipis

Lipis — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:07:41 +0000

nice.. computer name was wrong there.. So i just changed that and it worked without removing the address..

thanx..

By: -Pete-

-Pete- — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:59:09 +0000

Thank man, (:-)-|-<
I'd preferred qedit at root console to /etc/hosts file.

-Pete-

By: newbie

newbie — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:04:23 +0000

Thanks for the post. Being new to Ubuntu, I was stopped a while by the gksudo/sudo stuff in a terminal: it would not work for the same reason “unresolved host”.
I recommend to use the tool selected through menus system->administration->network.
Password is gently asked for, and the 127.0.1.1 entry can resolve nicely to the host name you type in.

Thanks again.

By: arunkumara

arunkumara — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:50:48 +0000

Yeah.. it works for me also… Thank u very much………..!

Have fun..

By: yurixx

yurixx — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:07:45 +0000

Great! how on earth did you figure out how to do that? Worked like a charm.

By: Update Manager et al hanging | keyongtech

Update Manager et al hanging | keyongtech — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:35:24 +0000

[...] Re: Update Manager et al hanging On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:09:12 +0100, Mark wrote: > Hardy Heron… > > The Update Manager gets its lists, sometimes asks for password, and just > hangs until a quit is forced. Synaptic is given up on after about 10 > seconds, and Add/Remove Applications produces the lists, but won’t add > or remove anything. Are they all related? Yes > More importantly, is there a cure? Might want to try the following: http://www.joewein.net/blog/2008/05/…how-to-fix-it/ [...]

By: connectionfailure

connectionfailure — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:35:46 +0000

Actually I checked /etc/hosts but it was blank. In Apps->System->Network in the General tab I had some dumb name in the “Host name” field.
After deleting it, and doing a sudo killall update-manager to knock off the hung software, when I relaunched update manager it worked properly again. Hurray for internetz! Hurray for Joe!

By: JoeUser

JoeUser — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:09:36 +0000

Thank you for the fix. I too am pretty new to Linux in general. Like Globalcommunication my etc/host file was blank in gedit from terminal. I had to do the frowned upon sudo nautilus and navigate to the file. Then I could see the contents in gedit.

By: globalcommunication

globalcommunication — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:30:41 +0000

I tried the gksudo gedit etc/hosts approach but the hosts file is empty. I tried to revert but the file has been deleted. I’ve hardly used this machine since installing (couldn’t get web access until last night) so I don’t think it can be anything I’ve done. Any ideas?