apt-clone takes a long time to restore previously installed packages, gives the appearance of being hung

[Arif Ali Saiyed]

I already had xubuntu 12.10 running fine.
I decided to upgrade to 13.04 through installation DVD .
all stages got over in less than 30 minutes but at the end it got stuck at "restoring already installed packages"

I kept on waiting for more than 3 hours and now also i have left on god , may be after 8 hours when i wake up it will done.

I have Pentium 4 processor with 1 GB RAM.

I am attaching , screen shots and videos of what was going on.

[Arif Ali Saiyed (arif-ali-syed)]

I havee also captured HD video of two minutes to show what was going on during installation.

I ran 'top' command on the shell as suggested by "#xubuntu " channel people on IRC.

I recorded the video of 'top' output in this.

In this video , i am also demonstrating the painting/display issue in ubiquity slide show... when i expand the deails button.

[Arif Ali Saiyed (arif-ali-syed)]

After two hours from now if you check my following Google drive share .. there should be a video ( its uploading righ now )

http://goo.gl/3UH4w

[Arif Ali Saiyed (arif-ali-syed)]

In my 12.10 Xbunutu I had following sofwares installed on top of default installation

GCompri
ChailPlay
Pre-School bundle
Primay bundle
typing tux

[Arif Ali Saiyed (arif-ali-syed)]

video is now available in my google drive share.

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[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

/var/log/ubiquity/syslog from the running upgrade would be helpful here.

[Arif Ali Saiyed (arif-ali-syed)]

ubiquity folder doesn;t exists in my /var/log
let me know hwo else i can help you ?

another note. i left my cpmuter as it is after waitinf for 4 hours ( 4 hours in "restoring previously installed packages" )
and slept next day morning i saw it was done.

most people on IRC said that it was because of your 1GB RAM, you need to have more RAM.