apt-get dist-upgrade hung

[Chris Moore]

Binary package hint: lilo

I just dist-upgraded dapper after a few days of not doing it. It installed a new kernel, asked whether to run lilo, and I replied in the affirmative, as always. lilo just hung. It's bene stuck for half an hour now.

Here's a copy/paste from the terminal window:

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A new kernel image has been installed at /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-22-686
 (Size: 1470kB)

 Initial rootdisk image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-22-686 (Size: 6600kB)

Symbolic links, unless otherwise specified, can be found in /

LILO sets up your system to boot Linux directly from your hard
disk, without the need for booting from a boot floppy.

WARNING
If you are keeping another operating system or another version
of Linux on a separate disk partition, you should not have LILO
install a boot block now. Wait until you read the LILO documentation.
That is because installing a boot block now might make the other
system un-bootable. If you only want to run this version of Linux,
go ahead and install the boot block here. If it does not work, you
can still boot this system from a boot floppy.

You already have a LILO configuration in /etc/lilo.conf
Install a boot block using the existing /etc/lilo.conf? [Yes]
Testing lilo.conf ...
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These are the processes which are running:

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root 23286 4710 0 19:50 pts/0 00:00:01 apt-get dist-upgrade
root 26671 23286 0 20:17 pts/0 00:00:01 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 11 --configure libx11-6 libx11-dev libxfce4util4 libxfcegui4-4 xfce4-appfinder libxfce4mcs-client3 libxfce4mcs-manager3 libexo-0.3-0 xfce4-terminal xfce4-panel xfce4-mixer xfce4-mixer-alsa xfce4-systemload-plugin libhal1 libhal-storage1 libthunar-vfs-1 mousepad xfce4-xkb-plugin xfwm4 udev hal xfce4-session xfce4-mailwatch-plugin xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins orage xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-taskmanager xfmedia xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin xfce4-utils thunar xfce4-clipman-plugin xfce4-weather-plugin xfce4-verve-plugin libcupsys2 xfprint4 xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfdesktop4 xfce4-battery-plugin libhal-dev flex xserver-xorg alsa-utils ubuntu-minimal at ubuntu-standard abiword abiword-common abiword-plugins vbetool acpi-support libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libnautilus-extension1 capplets-data gnome-control-center libtiff4 libtiffxx0c2 libtiff4-dev libcupsimage2 cupsys cupsys-client cupsys-bsd epiphany-browser ethereal-common ethereal evolution evolution-plugins gdb python2.4-apt python-apt gksu gdebi gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-alsa gnome-media libpanel-applet2-0 gnome-panel-data gnome-panel gnome-power-manager gnome-session gnome-system-monitor gnome-utils gnome-volume-manager xutils gsfonts-x11 gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps gstreamer0.10-x hal-device-manager hotkey-setup java-common libcupsys2-gnutls10 libglib2.0-cil libgconf2.0-cil libgtk2.0-cil libglade2.0-cil libgnome2.0-cil libgtksourceview-common
libgtksourceview1.0-0 libsvn0 linux-image-2.6.15-22-686 linux-image-686 linux-restricted-modules-common linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-22-686 linux-restricted-modules-686 linux-686 mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb nautilus-data nautilus powernowd python2.4-gnome2-extras python-gnome2-extras python-gnome2-extras-dev subversion tangerine-icon-theme ttf-gentium ubuntu-artwork ubuntu-base update-notifier xbase-clients x-window-system-core ubuntu-desktop unattended-upgrades valgrind
root 30194 26671 0 20:24 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.15-22-686.postinst configure
root 32615 30194 0 20:26 pts/0 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/lilo -t >/var/log/lilo_log.30194 2>&1
root 32616 32615 0 20:26 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh -e /sbin/lilo -t
root 32617 32616 0 20:26 pts/0 00:00:02 /sbin/lilo.real -t
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I'll attach lilo.conf, but I've not changed it for quite a while now.

[Chris Moore (dooglus)]

/etc/lilo.conf

[jscc88 (jscc88-deactivatedaccount)]

you can upgrade manually your sistem

sistem admin update

[Julian Alarcon (julian-alarcon)]

The user Juan Sebastian Cobaleda Cano is a troll, or something. We, in the Ubuntu-Co Team are checking all his changes in Launchpad. Sorry for the problems.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package lilo - 1:23.2-1

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lilo (1:23.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Joachim Wiedorn ]
  * New upstream release:
    - Fix for larger kernel setup code. (Closes: #625266)
    - Update of manpages (mkrescue.8, lilo.conf.5).
  * Update of some patches; remove of some patches (now in upstream).
  * debconf scripts:
    - Update of French translation (fr.po). (Closes: #621845)
    - Update of Portuguese translation (pt.po). (Closes: #622642)
    - Update of Russian translation (ru.po). (Closes: #623794)
    - Update of Japanese translation (ja.po). (Closes: #624629)
  * debian/control:
    - Bump to Standards-Version 3.9.2 (without changes).
    - Remove mbr dependency for package lilo (no more needed).
    - Replace perl-modules dependency with variable ${perl:Depends}.

  [ Niels Thykier ]
  * Added DMUA flag.

lilo (1:23.1-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Joachim Wiedorn ]
  * debian/control:
    - Remove dependency to lilo in package lilo-doc. (Closes: #613753)
  * Fix: save errno for second command (device.c).
  * Fix: save file permissions for converted lilo.conf (Closes: #615103)
      and fix some typos in script lilo-uuid-diskid.
  * Fix: missleading error message in geometry.c. (Closes: #445264)
  * Reformatting of mkrescue manpage (thanks to M.E. Schauer).
      (Closes: #617282)
  * debconf scripts:
    - Fix typos in some debconf translation files. (Closes: #504733)
    - Use better style in debconf translations. (Closes: #312451, #504733)
    - Remove debconf code for managing old boot/boot.b and similar files.
    - Remove no more needed debian/lilo.lintian-overrides file.
    - Remove script liloconfig and all appropriate debconf code.
    - Update of German translation (de.po).
    - Update of French translation (fr.po). (Closes: #615936)
    - Update of Russian translation (ru.po). (Closes: #616691)
    - Update of Galician translation (gl.po).
    - Update of Danish translation (da.po). (Closes: #618004)
    - Update of Basque translation (eu.po). (Closes: #618253)
    - Update of Czech translation (cs.po). (Closes: #618711)
    - Update of Spanish translation (es.po). (Closes: #618813)
    - Update of Finnish translation (fi.po). (Closes: #618886)
    - Update of Italian translation (it.po). (Closes: #618801)
    - Update of Brazilian Portuguese translation. (Closes: #618738)
    - Update of Swedish translation (sv.po). (Closes: #618620)
  * Add new script liloconfig, using template with comments,
      works with UUID, LABEL and disk-id for root and boot options.
  * Add new manpage for liloconfig, update of other manpages.
  * Fix typos and phrases in manpage of lilo.conf. (Closes: #258472)

  [ Niels Thykier ]
  * Added Depends on perl-modules, since liloconfig needs it.

lilo (1:23.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release. (Closes: #339778)
  * Upstream bugfixes:
    - Option 'append' works with acpi=off. (Closes: #428390)
    - Working on degraded RAID-1 device. (Closes: #278373, #522283)
    - Working with MD v1.0 RAID-1 boot devices. (Closes: #598035)
    - Working with spaces in labels. (Closes: #287257)
    - Using new hook scripts for kernel and initrd only one...