[PLUG] Ubuntu Mate Update Weirdness

[John Jason Jordan]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 17:48:07 -0800
Rigel Hope <gnu at rigelhope.org> dijo:

>Im sorry i dont have anything more constructive than "have you tried a
>command line apt update followed by upgrade?” to offer.

I love the GUI, but when it goes awry I switch to the command line if I
can. Instead of mysteriously evaporating from the screen, the command
line is better at giving real error messages.

I have also been having issues with Update Manager lately, similar to
what Dick reports, including failing to find the internet. Because of
the problems, which I assume are bugs, I don't even try Update Manager
anymore. When I want to do an update I launch Synaptic, which I find
more reliable.

I have two computers and get these same results with both - Xubuntu
14.04.5 and Xubuntu 17.10.1.