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Ubuntu 16.04 64bit. apt-get update hangs here..

$ sudo apt-get update 
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB]                               
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [94.5 kB]       
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [92.2 kB]
Fetched 281 kB in 2s (126 kB/s)

Don't know what it's doing, but top reports a new process:

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                                                                                                                 
 2476 root      20   0  134232  37976   9708 R  99.7  0.1   3:36.12 appstreamcli

The graphical updater doesn't make it to the end either. How can I fix this?

ritter
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  • What happens when you try to change to other mirrors? – upbeta01 May 20 '16 at 03:27
  • Its a bug, the same problem is happening on my machine. Please report it here : http://askubuntu.com/questions/774985/apt-get-update-hangs-in-16-04# – Severus Tux May 20 '16 at 03:32
  • After selecting another mirror it tries to download the list of packages and hangs at some point. The 'appstreamcli' process is again in the process list and never terminates – ritter May 20 '16 at 03:41
  • @SeverusTux where are bugs reported? You posted the link of the question – ritter May 20 '16 at 03:43
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    @Frank I am sorry. Here it is : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/1583862 – Severus Tux May 20 '16 at 09:39
  • Not only is this hanging the system, even new installs hang at this point making it impossible to complete an install. – Arup Roy Chowdhury May 20 '16 at 10:42

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