If a debconf prompt is not answered after some time update-manager need to catch the attention of the user.

[Jim Tarvid]

Ran Distribution Upgrade from Update Manager.. System hangs without reboot. After several hours, system fails manual reboot.
After several tries, Grub ofters recovery mode. In recovery mode, package upgrade runs for some time. On the next reboot, Gnome does come up.

Audio out, internal microphone not working.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please add the log files from '/var/log/dist-upgrade/' to this bug report as separate attachments? Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

I think that there was debconf prompt asking you for a confirmation but maybe the dialog was hidden by something or didn't displayed for some reason. That would explain that the system hung (waiting for an input) and that you were dropped to rescue mode on reboot (since grub was partially installed). There's not much we can do and I haven't seen duplicates of that case. Do you agree to close this report ?

Regarding the audio issue, could you please open a terminal and run the command:
ubuntu-bug audio

This will create a new report and collect all the necessary information to help you.
Thanks in advance.

[Jim Tarvid (tarvid)]

You may indeed be correct about the prompt but everything seemed
frozen. You could time out to a recoverable default so one doesn't
have to babysit the upgrade.

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement
<email address hidden> wrote:
> I think that there was debconf prompt asking you for a confirmation but
> maybe the dialog was hidden by something or didn't displayed for some
> reason. That would explain that the system hung (waiting for an input)
> and that you were dropped to rescue mode on reboot (since grub was
> partially installed). There's not much we can do and I haven't seen
> duplicates of that case. Do you agree to close this report ?
>
> Regarding the audio issue, could you please open a terminal and run the command:
> ubuntu-bug audio
>
> This will create a new report and collect all the necessary information to help you.
> Thanks in advance.
>
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[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

You're right, something could be done at update-manager level when a debconf prompt is not answered after a period of time, maybe simply bringing the dialog to the top if it has been hidden by another window would be sufficient.

I'm changing the title and marking the report as confirmed

[Jim Tarvid (tarvid)]

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