do-release-upgrade stalled on "Setting up libgdu0 (2.32.1-0ubuntu4)" on Maverick->Natty upgrade

[Boris Dušek]

Binary package hint: gnome-disk-utility

1. Install Maverick i386 desktop (happened 3 months ago)
2. Update it to latest software using "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade". I did not restart to boot into the new kernel.
3. Run "sudo do-release-upgrade" over ssh to upgrade to Natty. Answer "install new version" when promted what to do with the /etc/default/grub file

do-release-upgrade then ends up stalled on "Setting up libgdu0 (2.32.1-0ubuntu4)". In fact, it is then no longer possible to ping the machine's IP. I can't report what is the status of the machine since it's more than 200 km away.

I seem to not be the only one with exactly the same symptom: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=10811911

[Paul Carter (pauleg-carter)]

I 'm having failures during the first update after upgrade to 11.04 -

upgrade in 11.04 failed.
installArchives() failed:
Extract templates from packages: 81%

Extract templates from packages: 100%

Preconfiguring packages ...

(Reading database ... dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:

 unable to open files list file for package `libgdu0': No such device or address

The /var/lib/dpkg/status file became corrupt in 2 places; discovered by running 'sudo dpkg --configure -a', which gave errors -

dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 41429 package 'tracker-miner-evolution':
 field name `ple' must be followed by colon
 and after editing/repairing that -
dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 73599 package 'pulseaudio-module-bluetooth':
 'Recommends' field, missing architecture name, or garbage where architecture name expected
After editing that one, the sudo dpkg --configure -a completed successfully.

Running update again generated the same kind of failure as before.