update manager is stuck on "checking for updates" | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

dapper karma Mar 11, 2025, 2:47 AM

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it's been 30 minutes and i've never had it take more than 30 seconds before

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i installed a single flatpak update which is what immediately preceeded this

potent panther Mar 11, 2025, 2:49 AM

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What's checking for updates

dapper karma Mar 11, 2025, 2:50 AM

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...the update manager

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sharp lake Mar 11, 2025, 2:53 AM

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You might want to restart the process for that. Not much of a worry though.

dapper karma Mar 11, 2025, 2:54 AM

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how do i do that? just kill it via console?

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or is there a better way to smoothly restart it

sharp lake Mar 11, 2025, 2:56 AM

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dapper karma how do i do that? just kill it via console?

Yeah, kill it from the Task Manager. Call the Update Manager from the terminal followed by an ampersand.

dapper karma Mar 11, 2025, 2:56 AM

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sharp lake Yeah, kill it from the Task Manager. Call the Update Manager from the terminal f...

what's the terminal command and why the &?

sharp lake Mar 11, 2025, 2:57 AM

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killall -9 mintupdate && mintupdate &

dapper karma Mar 11, 2025, 2:57 AM

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oh mintupdate

sharp lake Mar 11, 2025, 2:57 AM

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dapper karma what's the terminal command and why the `&`?

The ampersand will make the process run in background.

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Because typically, when you run a process from the terminal... if you close the terminal, the process goes along with it.

dapper karma Mar 11, 2025, 2:57 AM

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oh duh

sharp lake Mar 11, 2025, 2:59 AM

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How did it go?

dapper karma Mar 11, 2025, 3:00 AM

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"no process found"

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seems to be failing to kill it with that

sharp lake Mar 11, 2025, 3:01 AM

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I can't remember much from Mint anymore, I'm on Ubuntu.

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Maybe send a screenshot of the processes on Task Manager or something similar.

dapper karma Mar 11, 2025, 3:04 AM

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seems it's called "mintUpdate" in the system monitor

sharp lake Mar 11, 2025, 3:05 AM

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oh fuck lol

dapper karma Mar 11, 2025, 3:06 AM

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also ended up just running mintupdate on its own and that seems to have restarted it perfectly

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even after the terminal was closed it's still running fine

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