Upgrade from 7.10 to 8.04 hangs upon locale packages update
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
My hardware is:
AMD Athlon 64 proc.
1GB ram
SATA II HD had 3 partitions:
sda3 - mount '/' which had 2 GB of free space
sda4 - mount '/home' which had 3 GB of free space
sda5 - 800 MB swap
It happened a week ago. I had Ubuntu 7.10 (32 bit) totally upgraded and working ok. Update-manager (which had already downloaded all updates) ran ok until aprox. 98% of the upgrade to 8.04, then it just stopped.
I confirmed it had stopped by waiting for more than 5 minutes, and the completion bar wouldn't get out of the 98%.
Running 'ps aux' showed me 4 processes (besides the ones that are always there), and those 4 were:
localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8
/bin/sh -e /var/lib/
/bin/sh /usr/sbin/
locale -a
(not necessarily in that order)
The 'top' tool showed me one of this processes sucking aprox. 90% of my processor time (it was the localedef or the locale-gen, sorry I really can't remember which one of these two). Trying to kill that process didn't help. It just wouldn't stop running.
When I gave up finishing the upgrade and decided to reboot, my Ubuntu wouldn't reboot either, probably because it couldn't terminate that weird hanged up process. Finally I put it to an end by issuing a SysReq REISUB to begin a clean install from 8.04.1 CD (my luck I had '/home' on a separate partition).
I'm pleased to cooperate. Thanks.
| Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote | #1 |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 249340, so it is being marked as such. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.