Distribution upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 hangs on "configuring, libgcc1"

[John Vivirito]

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>    1. Distribution upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 hangs on "configuring
>       libgcc1" (darshak shah)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:51:57 +0530
> From: "darshak shah" <darshak.s at gmail.com>
> Subject: Distribution upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 hangs on "configuring
> 	libgcc1"
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> I tried to upgrade from 7.04 version to 7.10 using the adept package
> manager.
> I had kept the machine in the office over the weekend for installation, it
> had successfully downloaded all the upgrades,
> And when it tried to install them, it was hung on "configuring libgcc1" for
> a long time.
> 
> After that, I closed the upgrade process manually, and rebooted the machine
> twice.
> Then when I tried to open the adept manager again, it gives me this error.
> 
> "Another process is using the packaging system database (probably some other
> Adept application or apt-get or aptitude). Please close the other
> application before using this one."
> 
> 
> I have no other application running which is locking the package manager.
> I suspect that when I closed the "Distribution Upgrade" manually, it has not
> released/deleted the corresponding lock file.
> 
> After this step I was trying to run "sudo apt-get update" on the command
> line.
> This step ends with this error.
> "
> Fetched 6B in 4s (1B/s)
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
> correct the problem.
> "
> 
> And when I tried "sudo dpkg --configure -a" I get the following error.
> 
> darshak at darshak-machine:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
> dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/updates/0006' near line 2 package
> `libc6':
>  `triggers-pendi' is not allowed for third (status) word in `status' field
> 
> I have no idea how to move ahead from this step.
> I want to upgrade my distribution to 7.10, and I have all the necessary
> packages downloaded in my "/var/cache/apt/archives/" which is approx 1.4 GB,
> which I do not want the apt manager to download again.
> 
> Thank you in Advance!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Darshak
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If you run sudo apt-get dist-upgrade it will not download packages that
have already been downloaded but there might be one you are missing. As
for the lock, this is known in adept i will post the bot output for that
factoid below,
ubotu > If an APT front-end crashed and your database is locked, try
this in a !terminal: << sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock;sudo dpkg
- --configure -a >>
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