Sam's fix is a good one, I ended up doing something similar to avoid having a broken packaging system. As long update-menus is not being run by apt-get or dpkg, it performs the desired updates and doesn't lock up.
-- update-menus hangs <defunct> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
