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**GreyGeek** · May 20, 2017, 08:05 PM

Open a konsole and issue

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If you get an error msg again then do
apt-get -f install
followed by
dpkg --configure -a

Repeat those two until things clear up or you get the same error msg over and over. If the "apt-get update" returns a msg about being locked you'll have to delete the lock file (called "lock") in /var/lib/dpkg
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
Then begin again with the update command and continue on.

I always use the konsole to do
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

**steve7233** · May 20, 2017, 11:19 PM

Originally posted by GreyGeek View Post

Open a konsole and issue

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If you get an error msg again then do
apt-get -f install
followed by
dpkg --configure -a

Repeat those two until things clear up or you get the same error msg over and over. If the "apt-get update" returns a msg about being locked you'll have to delete the lock file (called "lock") in /var/lib/dpkg
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
Then begin again with the update command and continue on.

I always use the konsole to do
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt-get update
[sudo] password for vince:
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty InRelease
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates InRelease [89.2 kB]
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security InRelease [89.2 kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports InRelease [89.2 kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [36.5 kB]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [39.4 kB]
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [32.6 kB]
Get:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-updates/universe DEP-11 128x128 Icons [85.5 kB]
Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [3,980 B]
Get:10 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [204 B]
Get:11 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty-security/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [4,208 B]
Fetched 470 kB in 1s (375 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$

Thats weird because discovery was updating 91 packages when it Seg faulted.

**steve7233** · May 21, 2017, 02:08 AM

I just found this: on launchpad.net bug number 1674760. So this has been happening for a while.

**GreyGeek** · May 21, 2017, 08:23 AM

You should still run the apt-get -f install and the dpkg --configure -a commands to be sure all 91 of the files were installed and configured.

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**steve7233** · May 21, 2017, 09:16 PM

Originally posted by GreyGeek View Post

You should still run the apt-get -f install and the dpkg --configure -a commands to be sure all 91 of the files were installed and configured.

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vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
[sudo] password for vince:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo dpkg --config -a
dpkg: error: unknown option --config

Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages[*];
Use 'apt' or 'aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;

Options marked[*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through 'less' or 'more' !
vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
vince@vince-HP-Pavilion-dv6-Notebook-PC:~$

**GreyGeek** · May 21, 2017, 10:47 PM

It appears that all your packages were installed and configured before Discover segfaulted, so the problem appears to be with Discover. You could purge Discover, do an autoremove and then reinstall it. Or, just work with muon or synaptic.

**steve7233** · May 22, 2017, 02:58 PM

Originally posted by GreyGeek View Post

It appears that all your packages were installed and configured before Discover segfaulted, so the problem appears to be with Discover. You could purge Discover, do an autoremove and then reinstall it. Or, just work with muon or synaptic.

I will just use synaptic for now. Since Launch pad has known about this bug for several months then I am sure there will be a patch at some point to fix the segfault. I clicked on the 'This effects me to' link.

**Guest** · Jul 03, 2017, 12:45 PM

I just recently installed Kubuntu 17.04 for the first time on a fresh install discover crashed for me. I had not only discover crash but somehow had removed itself completely from system. I know for myself I had to reinstall and do the above mentioned apt-get update and apt-get upgrade until it finished all the updates for the entire system to be stable.

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