Hello, I have some further information which I attach hoping it will help to solve the problem.
I ran strace against the Software Center's PID (5211) for a while (twice, waiting a couple of minutes between the two traces). The output is in the files strace_software_center.txt and strace_software_center.2.txt. >From how I understand the output, the software_center (PID 5211) seems to be doing some inter-process communication on file descriptors 6 and 7. The processe's file descriptors (found in /proc/5211/fd/) are also attached as well as an output of netstat -np (showing sockets). kind regards Martin ** Attachment added: "additional information as described in the comment" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1485434/+attachment/4446107/+files/software_center_hangig.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1485434 Title: Installation in Ubuntu Software Center does not progress Status in software-center package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Hello, I have upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04 to Ubuntu 14.04. Now I would like to install the GNOME desktop and I used the "Ubuntu Software Center" for this purpose. I choose the Gnome desktop package and started the installation. The installation is now running for over 7 hours, and the progress bar in the Software Center window stays in the middle position while the "progress" icon keeps turning around. When I display processes with top, I see software-center, compiz and Xorg as the top CPU consumers with 5-10% each. Overall CPU usage is between 10 and 30 percent (displayed with vmstat) and there is no significant swapping or other I/O activity. So I wonder what the process (softwar-center) is actually doing / what it is waiting for. My machine is a HP laptop EliteBook8530w, with two Intel Core2 Duo @ 2.66 GHz and 3.8 GByte of main memory. For the moment I'll keep Software Center running, in case you need any further information from the running system. Please also advise me if I can safely terminate (kill) Software Center, without leaving the system in an inconsistent state. Thank you very much for any help kind regards Martin To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1485434/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
