Comment 7 for bug 255075

I killed the /usr/sbin/locale-gen script that invoked the localedef command and this caused the upgrade to continue but with some "Coud not install package <blabla> dependency problem - leaving unconfigured" messages.

I had to kill this script about 3 more times. The upgrade continued to the end where it detected that something was wrong then tried to revert/recover. This resulted install of some version of the locales package (again it stalled, so I had to kill it) then the update manager quit.

I rebooted and everything started without any error messages. I logged in and it says I am running 8.04, package manager/update manager says everything is up to date.

Did a reinstall of the locales package (this time it worked) causing some of the packages that failed previously with dependency problem to be installed.

So far everything seems to be working.

Cheers.