Comment 7 for bug 653422

I had the same problem. My System Info: PowerEdge R710 (2.4g Xeon E5530 Dual Processors) with 24GB Ram) running vSphere 4.1 Standard.

starting from a blank VM, using either the ISO or the VMDK version turnkey-core-11.1-lucid-x86.iso and turnkey-core-11.1-lucid-x86-vmdk (both have crashed for me).

'apt-get update', then 'apt-get upgrade' works fine, when I go to do 'apt-get dist-upgrade' includes the udev modules and it hangs during install. I can reproduce this on my setup every time. Sometimes the results are different, and I'm not sure if they're all related or not. Initially I had built a VM and added dhcp3-server to it, but when I used the Webmin interface, it seemed a little flaky, randomly giving me time-outs. flattened VM, and started over. the next time when I went to reboot it after it got hung up, it wouldn't finish booting and crashed on the fs check.

After that I did some reading and someone recomended using aptitude and putting udev on hold, then doing the dist-upgrade. so far, that seems to be working, but I'm not that familiar with ubuntu yet, (just enough to be dangerous) so I'm not sure whats in udev, or if it's something that's going to come back to bite me later on...

-Mike