Comment 8 for bug 572795

fuser -v /var/cache/debconf/config.dat never managed to return anything last night

After a restart we are back to the original problem. If I do sudo apt-get upgrade it starts loading up everything fine and then I just get a screen full of "y" Last time I left this for over 24 hours and while it did eventually dissapear I think that had more to do with timing out then actually completing anything.

I tried to run Synaptic but it couldnt get an exclusive lock, no other program like apt get seemed to be running and when I tried again it told me to run "sudo dpkg --configure -a" Which resulted in this
Setting up libselinux1 (2.0.89-4) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

I was able to get into Synaptic and hit the mark allupgrade and applied it
It downloaded a whole lot of bits a pieces but in the end appears to be stuck still with the y problem in terminal. I will leave it to see if it clears itself up but I doubt it.