Comment 3 for bug 259956

The problem appears to be only in the latest version of gutsy, ie 2.6.22-15-generic.

Others on the forum report 2.6.22-14 being ok to recover and complete a dist upgrade by running 'dpkg --configure -a' from a recovery boot (init 1 ie 'single'), and I have just run 'dpkg --configure -a' using hardy 2.6.24-19-generic successfully from a recovery boot. So far I appear to have a gui session running normally.

There must be something in 2.6.22-15 that is clashing with the locale stuff which is what is surfacing to wreck dist upgrades.