My software center is unresponsive without restarting. I first have to restart and then the updates and everything will be displayed and I can look around at the different software options available.
Most of the time I am forced to reboot to install updates so I have to restart twice if I choose to update via the software center and at least once if I want to browse around the software center and install something new.
I can update via the terminal just fine but it is inconvenient that I have to restart before I can do anything in the software center.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do to fix this?
As far as I know that’s the default for updates to restart into kind of a safe mode then restart when updates are finished.I have auto update turned off and use dnf upgrade in the terminal.
Software center almost always recommends a restart, but it isn’t usually necessary. More worrisome is that Software Center hangs for you. Seems you’re comfortable at the command line, so if you have a terminal window launched, does ‘top’ seem to show that software center is looping, or IO bound, or ??
With top running. I opened the software center and just clicked on updates. Not sure if there are any yet this morning as it is still early. But the process shows for maybe 2 minutes and then it is disappears.
Software center is still open. The wheel that spins with updates has stopped spinning and if I click on Explore, and then any application, it will say loading application details and this does not change.
Still no process displaying in top once it disappears.
I cleaned the cache, even uninstalled gnome-software and reinstalled. It works just fine right after a restart so I will have to update later if it continues to hang.