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Installation problem when upgrading online from ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04

Asked by rajdamu

Hi

I am upgrading from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 online and it gets stuck at the following

Below is what my terminal window shows

Installing new version of config file /etc/belocs/iso-639.def ...
Generating locales...
en_AU.UTF-8....

Unfortunatly once I get here that's it the laptop does not do anything and I have to re-start.
And after this no version of Ubuntu comes up.
This forces me to get a live CD of 7.04 and re-install this to run an operating system and upgrade to 7.10

Any help is much appreciated else I am stuck with version 7.10.
This is the second time I am trying this.

regards

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Daniel Schwitzgebel (schwitzd) said : 		#1

Try with this workarround

sudo -i
killall locale-gen

verify if this folder exist
/lib/modules/2.6.24-19

and these file
/boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic

if exist all edit /boot/grub/menu.lst

and add the locale options with the languages for example locale=en
title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic root=UUID=285197bc-9a28-44df-92fc-42a98e1e6f51 ro quiet splash locale=en
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic

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Otto Kekäläinen (otto) said : 		#2

Hello,

(how to replicate:) I've seen this issue with two of our company's (human) clients upgrading from 7.10 -> 8.04: The upgrade fails (freezes) and when the client reboots the machine it is no longer usable. Running dpkg --configure -a freezes while trying to generate locales. Killing the locale-gen-command with kill -1 or -9 switches does not work. Dpkg is also cramped since it cannot install dbus, and pretty much everything depends on it to install (and configure first).

Solution:
1. reboot the machine using the older recovery mode (the newest kernel isn't fully installed and does not work properly)
2. run "mkdir /var/run/dbus" since it is missing and would otherwise stop package dbus from upgrading.
3. run "dpkg --reconfigure -a": It will finish installation of dbus and then locale-gen will work.
4. Reboot. Everything works.

More info about failing packages can be seen with "dpkg -C".

(see bug report, link on the left)

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