edubuntu upgrade

[NoOp]

On 08/05/2008 12:23 PM, norman wrote:
> I decided to upgrade my granddaughters computer from Edubuntu 7.10 to
> Edubuntu 8.04. All went well until the final few minutes when the
> packages were being processed. The processing stopped at the line
> 'en_AU.UTF-8 . . . ' which was preceded by 'Generating locales'. After
> waiting for about 30 minutes, in desperation, I switched the computer
> off, waited a few minutes and then switched on again. Booting
> progressed, I was asked for name and then password and then the screen
> stayed a sort of pale brown otherwise blank.
> 
> Ctrl-Alt-F1, entered name and password and got a terminal. Following a
> suggestion I did sudo dpkg --configure -a and again the processing stuck
> at the same place as it had before. 
> 
> I would be most grateful if someone could suggest how I could try to
> overcome this problem otherwise I suppose I will have to download
> Edubuntu 8.04 and install it over the part processed Edubuntu that is
> there.
> 
> Norman
> 
> 


I recognize that one. Have a look here for workarounds:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/249340