Ubuntu
update-manager package

Upgrade to Hardy hangs on Generating locales

Bug #249258 reported by ronrafajko on 2008-07-16

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #249340: Gutsy->Hardy upgrade hangs in localedef. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	update-manager (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

GUI x64 update from Feisty to Hardy (I thought it was Gutsy) hung for hours after:

Setting up locales (2.7.9-4)
Generating locals ...
en_AU.UTF-8 ...

Rebooted and tried to repair packages - same hang.

Any ideas how to get my system back?

THANKS!

~ron

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ronrafajko (ron-rafajko) on 2008-07-17

description:

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raho (rainer-hochreiter) wrote on 2008-07-18:

hi ron!

i have the same problem, so i want to ask wether you have already a solution for the problem?

thanx, rainer

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ronrafajko (ron-rafajko) wrote on 2008-07-18:

Rainer:

I have heard nothing on the bug. Other related issues were resolved by taking steps to kill the hung process. I am waiting for instructions in hopes of resolving/fixing the bug. I hope we hear something soon. If I do not get a response by Monday the 21st I will try to fix it on my own.

~ron

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ronrafajko (ron-rafajko) wrote on 2008-07-18:

Log files to be uploaded shortly.

~ron

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ronrafajko (ron-rafajko) wrote on 2008-07-18:

Here are the five files from my var/logs/dist-upgrade directory. Edit (680.0 KiB, application/x-tar)

Here are the five files from my var/logs/dist-upgrade directory.

~ron

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joe (kadhimj) wrote on 2008-07-18:

I have this exact same problem as well! Please help! Is there a way to recover Ubuntu 7.10?? I need my system back asap! Thanks.

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joe (kadhimj) wrote on 2008-07-18:

Oh yeah, I'm updating from 7.10 to 8.04. Everything else seems to be exactly the same as Ron's case. Thanks guys, I hope we can figure this out!

Joe

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blue9 (blue9) wrote on 2008-07-19:

Exactly the same behavior, update hangs in
Generating locals ...
en_AU.UTF-8 ...

During this time, localedef take 100% of CPU and can't be killed.

After reboot, adept-manager fails.
apt-get update throw the following advice :
dpkg was interrupt. To fix that : dpkg --configure -a.

The result of dpkg --configure -a is the same : hangs in localedef...

Changed in update-manager:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Tom V (tvice) wrote on 2008-07-21:

I got this from the Ubuntu forums and it worked for me.

1 start PC and let it load to X login screen (after getting X setup popup and choosing continue)
2 do a ctrl+alt+F1 and get to terminal and login.
3 sudo rm /usr/bin/localedef
4 sudo dpkg --configure -a
5 let upgrade finish and when back to the prompt "reboot"