{"id":9620,"date":"2019-12-10T16:23:18","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9620"},"modified":"2019-12-10T16:23:18","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T16:23:18","slug":"disable-installing-updates-during-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/12\/disable-installing-updates-during-shutdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable Installing Updates During Shutdown in Ubuntu 19.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/upgrade-ubuntu245.png\" alt=\"Ubuntu 18.04\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6103\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While shutting down, Ubuntu sometimes gets stuck at purple screen with Ubuntu logo and the scrolling 5 dots. And it says &#8216;<i><b>Unattended-upgrade in progress during shutdown, please don&#8217;t turn off the computer<\/b><\/i>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>This happens not very often, and it&#8217;s OK to press and hold the power button to force shutdown Ubuntu, which will not break you machine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unattendedupgrade-600x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unattendedupgrade-600x320.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unattendedupgrade-450x240.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unattendedupgrade-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/unattendedupgrade.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can also <b>prevent Ubuntu from installing updates while shutting down<\/b> simply by doing following steps one by one.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Open applications menu, search for and launch <code>Software & Updates<\/code> utility.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/software-updates-450x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"199\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/software-updates-450x199.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/software-updates.jpg 527w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.)<\/b> When it opens, navigate to <b>Updates<\/b> tab. Then disable &#8216;<b>Automatically check for updates<\/b>&#8216; by setting its value to <b>Never<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/disable-automaticupdates-600x279.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"279\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/disable-automaticupdates-600x279.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/disable-automaticupdates-450x209.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/disable-automaticupdates-768x357.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/disable-automaticupdates.jpg 997w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Disabling automatic updates comes with a security risk. You may launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> or run <code>sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade<\/code> command to keep your system updated manually.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While shutting down, Ubuntu sometimes gets stuck at purple screen with Ubuntu logo and the scrolling 5 dots. And it says &#8216;Unattended-upgrade in progress during shutdown, please don&#8217;t turn off the computer&#8216;. This happens not very often, and it&#8217;s OK to press and hold the power button to force shutdown Ubuntu, which will not break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}