Comment 5 for bug 606491

Been seeing the same problem in Maverick lately. I believe it may have something to do with automatic upgrades. Do the other people experiencing this issue have automatic updates turned on?

When manually running apt-get update/upgrade I have seen it hang indefinitely before possibly due to network issues and this may be what is happening when the system does the automatic updates. Maybe apt needs better network error handling or something (just a guess without actually looking into this problem very closely).