Windows 10 End of Support - October 14

[Agent_24]

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.

Were you running an upgraded version before?
I must admit, I have not used the upgrade feature much, the last time I used it (many years ago) I ran into some problems.

So I wonder if that could be the source of your issues... 
I'd have thought the upgrade process would be more reliable by now, and probably should be, but... who knows.

Did you have any errors or problems running an upgrade previously, on the install that had updater problems?