Windows 10 End of Support - October 14

[Wainuitech]

Both the VM and laptop have / had 25.04, (laptop has been wiped) both were installed within a day of each other 29/6/25 ( different downloads as I misplaced the USB drive) .  Been running ok, until left more than 4 weeks to do an update.

After opening a terminal enter the command, enter password  ( appears to accept it) then nothing. ( imagine as if it freezes) which it has never done before, only started playing silly buggers  after some of the updates that took 5 goes went in.

I do have a clone (VM)  of an earlier version 24.10, if I feel like playing I'll load that, but don't wait or hold your breath

Had this thing happen quite a few times ( on several different computers-so its not hardware) , after some updates or upgrades everything turns to custard.

How strange.
I only have one computer with a recent version of Xubuntu, 24.10 I think, and have had no such issues with updates.
Xubuntu uses XFCE and I use either the Synaptic package manager, or apt through through terminal.
Though I am only using it for testing as I am not impressed with Canonical's whole snap thing.

Anyway - I have not used Kubuntu for years, as I don't like KDE much, I recall it does use a different GUI package manager, though I do not remember the name.

It would definitely be interesting to know what messages were generated at the point you had to retry updating 5 times in a row, and on the first time there was an update failure. It sounds like there could be some issue with the package manager itself, but hard to say what might be wrong without the error messages.

Perhaps the contents of

Code:

/var/log/dpkg.log
/var/log/apt/term.log
/var/log/apt/history.log

(and/or the archived versions) would allow one to dig up some of the error messages, at least.

Thanks for trying--  But no can do. The VM was deleted, loading the Clone of the original, which wanted to upgrade to 25.04. Still waiting. Might have to leave it 4 + weeks to see if history repeats

Edited: this is going to be fun - 2nd picture.