when entering password to upgrade, error window says " seems daemon has died"

please review this bug report and see if it seems to be the same issue you are experiencing.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/443344

if it is, please vote (click this bug effects me) and add relevant comments

please attempt to run the updates via terminal

press CTLR + ALT + T and type in the follow commands

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

if this does not work, please paste the errors given, and paste the output of the following command

uname -a && lsb_release -a

Try:

sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock;sudo dpkg --configure -a

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Thank you for your input. I tried both your suggestions and the terminal is asking for sudo passwd and it won't take the passwd either. Went back into root and it will accept current passwd to change to another passwd and thats it. frustrated! Don't want to have to go back to Windows.

When you type a password in sudo, you don't get any feedback but keep typing and it will be accepted.

Are you saying while in terminal? Every time I put in password at terminal, it would continue to ask for the password. Our computer is starting to slow a little bit. I don't understand how it can accept the passwd at the root but not at anywhere else?

sudo is accepting the password, just type it and hit enter, you can even use gksudo instead and it will work and you will get feedback from your keypresses.

Thanks. i'm beginning to believe that I need to reset my password. When I go to root to reset passwd it says Usage: (options) (login). Then it lists all these options: -a, --all for showing all passwords for this username. then -d, --d for deleteing all passwds. and so on. I'll put (-a) then enter-nothing. It does not give me an option to reset? When I go to " ro single" to a root option and internal password seems to work, but we can't do anything with it!

to reset your password you can use this guide
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword