Comment 2 for bug 249027

Received this error on upgrading to Heron.
See also bug #249953

I did the following in the shell to get the upgrade to continue:

22370 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen
22384 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen
22419 pts/0 R+ 3:11 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 e
22420 pts/0 Z+ 0:00 [gzip] <defunct>
sudo kill -15 22370 22384 22419

... later the upgrader stalled again ...
2665 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen --no-purge en
2679 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen --no-purge en
22419 pts/0 R+ 9:43 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 e
22420 pts/0 Z+ 0:00 [gzip] <defunct>
sudo kill -15 2665 2679 22419

... later the upgrader stalled again ...
4057 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen --no-purge en
4070 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/sbin/locale-gen --no-purge en
2708 pts/0 D+ 0:01 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8
4099 pts/0 D+ 0:01 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8
22419 pts/0 R+ 14:27 localedef --no-archive --magic=20051014 -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8
sudo kill -15 2708 4057 4070 4099 22419