It appears that update-manager could not remove libnss3 for some reason and that was blocking the update . running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade installed all updates and cleared the update-manager notification that a partial upgrade was needed.
-- [apport] package update-manager failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): installArchives() failed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/115155 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