Well, I now upgraded gnome-applets-data on its own through Synaptic, and it upgraded without a hitch. It appears that all is now well as far as my machine is concerned, but quite likely the bug (and lots of hung update-managers) are still at large, so it shouldn't be marked as inactive.
-- update-manager hangs when installing latest gconf2 in hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/217786 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
