Comment 43 for bug 249340

This problem has not always been the case since hardy was released.

I came across the problem today and hence this thread after coming across the same locales problem.

The thing is I have upgraded from Gutsy with no problem at all with English UK being the defualt language a couple of days after the official release after discovering the hardys migration assistant didn't work. I ended up with the other 4 users on my windows system being on my main ubuntu login. All their pictures,files etc.

After re-installing Gutsy and updating then following the upgrade path no problem at all.

About a month later after screwing up my system badly with some unofficial proposed upgrades (never doing that again) I reinstalled again with no problems and decided to keep my Gutsy installation disk just in case.

This just in case situation occured this morning following a disk corruption. I managed to rescue some essential files. Installed Gutsy. All the updates and like you found it hung.
My theory it that the situation has arison because of a bug that has arisen because of something introduced in one of the gutsy updates since hardy was releases unless the files in hardy that are downloaded during the upgrade are different now since the first release.

It would be interesting to see if someone has an original alternate CD of Hardy that allows an upgrade from Gutsy to see if there are any problems compared to trying the new 8.04.1 release available now.

Inidentally the steps to fix worked for me
kernel 2.6.22-14
 dpkg --configure -a

BUT I couldn't select ctrla-alt-f1 to a console from X. I had to safe boot to the console and log in whereupon I was given the option to dpkg. In my case it was done quite quickly and after reboot everything seems fine.