Comment 0 for bug 43869

I just dist-upgraded dapper after a few days of not doing it. It installed a new kernel, asked whether to run lilo, and I replied in the affirmative, as always. lilo just hung. It's bene stuck for half an hour now.

Here's a copy/paste from the terminal window:

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A new kernel image has been installed at /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-22-686
 (Size: 1470kB)

 Initial rootdisk image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-22-686 (Size: 6600kB)

Symbolic links, unless otherwise specified, can be found in /

LILO sets up your system to boot Linux directly from your hard
disk, without the need for booting from a boot floppy.

WARNING
If you are keeping another operating system or another version
of Linux on a separate disk partition, you should not have LILO
install a boot block now. Wait until you read the LILO documentation.
That is because installing a boot block now might make the other
system un-bootable. If you only want to run this version of Linux,
go ahead and install the boot block here. If it does not work, you
can still boot this system from a boot floppy.

You already have a LILO configuration in /etc/lilo.conf
Install a boot block using the existing /etc/lilo.conf? [Yes]
Testing lilo.conf ...
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These are the processes which are running:

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root 23286 4710 0 19:50 pts/0 00:00:01 apt-get dist-upgrade
root 26671 23286 0 20:17 pts/0 00:00:01 /usr/bin/dpkg --status-fd 11 --configure libx11-6 libx11-dev libxfce4util4 libxfcegui4-4 xfce4-appfinder libxfce4mcs-client3 libxfce4mcs-manager3 libexo-0.3-0 xfce4-terminal xfce4-panel xfce4-mixer xfce4-mixer-alsa xfce4-systemload-plugin libhal1 libhal-storage1 libthunar-vfs-1 mousepad xfce4-xkb-plugin xfwm4 udev hal xfce4-session xfce4-mailwatch-plugin xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins orage xfce4-netload-plugin xfce4-taskmanager xfmedia xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin xfce4-fsguard-plugin xfce4-utils thunar xfce4-clipman-plugin xfce4-weather-plugin xfce4-verve-plugin libcupsys2 xfprint4 xfce4-cpugraph-plugin xfdesktop4 xfce4-battery-plugin libhal-dev flex xserver-xorg alsa-utils ubuntu-minimal at ubuntu-standard abiword abiword-common abiword-plugins vbetool acpi-support libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libnautilus-extension1 capplets-data gnome-control-center libtiff4 libtiffxx0c2 libtiff4-dev libcupsimage2 cupsys cupsys-client cupsys-bsd epiphany-browser ethereal-common ethereal evolution evolution-plugins gdb python2.4-apt python-apt gksu gdebi gstreamer0.10-plugins-base gstreamer0.10-alsa gnome-media libpanel-applet2-0 gnome-panel-data gnome-panel gnome-power-manager gnome-session gnome-system-monitor gnome-utils gnome-volume-manager xutils gsfonts-x11 gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs gstreamer0.10-plugins-base-apps gstreamer0.10-x hal-device-manager hotkey-setup java-common libcupsys2-gnutls10 libglib2.0-cil libgconf2.0-cil libgtk2.0-cil libglade2.0-cil libgnome2.0-cil libgtksourceview-common
libgtksourceview1.0-0 libsvn0 linux-image-2.6.15-22-686 linux-image-686 linux-restricted-modules-common linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15-22-686 linux-restricted-modules-686 linux-686 mozilla-firefox-locale-en-gb nautilus-data nautilus powernowd python2.4-gnome2-extras python-gnome2-extras python-gnome2-extras-dev subversion tangerine-icon-theme ttf-gentium ubuntu-artwork ubuntu-base update-notifier xbase-clients x-window-system-core ubuntu-desktop unattended-upgrades valgrind
root 30194 26671 0 20:24 pts/0 00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-2.6.15-22-686.postinst configure
root 32615 30194 0 20:26 pts/0 00:00:00 sh -c /sbin/lilo -t >/var/log/lilo_log.30194 2>&1
root 32616 32615 0 20:26 pts/0 00:00:00 /bin/sh -e /sbin/lilo -t
root 32617 32616 0 20:26 pts/0 00:00:02 /sbin/lilo.real -t
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I'll attach lilo.conf, but I've not changed it for quite a while now.