Dapper upgrade hangs - what to do?

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Daniel Carrera wrote:
> jean-ooo at taming-openoffice-org.com wrote:
>> Hmmm... I can't find how to do cancel the process. :-( I am on a 
>> window titled "Upgrading Ubuntu", which has no "Cancel" button and no 
>> "X" in the upper-right corner.
> 
> I'll show you how. Open a terminal. Position the terminal so that you 
> can still see some of the update manager window. Then on the terminal, 
> type "xkill". The mouse pointer turns into a skull. The next time you 
> click on any window, that program gets killed. Click anywhere on the 
> update manager window.

Thanks! I'll put that in my file of instructions for future 
reference. I figured it was some sort of "kill" but didn't know 
the details. That's cool; I like it.

Cheers, Jean