AMD64 7.04 install, fully up to date, and then chose to upgrade to the new 7.10 installation that was available with the GUI. It worked quite happily for a while and got to the stage of downloading lots of files. Left it to it. Now it's hung. The GUI is still present and responds to X expose events but nothing's happening. The end of dist-upgrade/apt.log says
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/apport/package_hook", line 15, in <module>
import apport, apport.fileutils
ImportError: No module named apport
If this bug is the cause of a 7.04 to 7.10 failure I can't believe that it's sitting here as High importance yet users are still allowed to topple into its abyss by upgrading to 7.10. What do I do to recover?
AMD64 7.04 install, fully up to date, and then chose to upgrade to the new 7.10 installation that was available with the GUI. It worked quite happily for a while and got to the stage of downloading lots of files. Left it to it. Now it's hung. The GUI is still present and responds to X expose events but nothing's happening. The end of dist-upgrade/ apt.log says
Traceback (most recent call last): apport/ package_ hook", line 15, in <module>
File "/usr/share/
import apport, apport.fileutils
ImportError: No module named apport
Some of the running processes include
10757 pts/0 Ss+ 0:00 /usr/bin/python /tmp/tmpurZIGY/ gutsy --have-prerequists --with-network dpkg/info/ ttf-indic- fonts-core. postinst configure backports/ usr/bin/ dpkg --force-overwrite --status-fd 4 --configure libc6-i386 linux-libc-dev libc6
20408 pts/0 S+ 0:00 /bin/sh /var/lib/
20420 pts/0 D+ 0:02 [fc-cache]
32245 pts/0 S+ 0:01 /tmp/tmpurZIGY/
32245 is sitting in waitpid().
If this bug is the cause of a 7.04 to 7.10 failure I can't believe that it's sitting here as High importance yet users are still allowed to topple into its abyss by upgrading to 7.10. What do I do to recover?