GUI Dist Upgrade hangs on pkg configs which use whiptail

[Eric Shubert]

On 06/05/2012 05:40 PM, Eric Shubert wrote:
> I used the GUI Distribution Upgrade method to upgrade from 11.10 to
> 12.04 (mythbuntu). When upgrading packages which use whiptail to display
> a configuration window (mysql-server-5.5, libc6), the whiptail text
> window displays in the Terminal area of the Dist Upgrade window, but I
> don't find any way to enter anything into that window, so the upgrade
> process pauses and simply waits for whiptail to complete, essentially
> hanging.
>
> When I kill the corresponding whiptail process(es), the upgrade resumes,
> although related package configurations are incomplete. I plan on doing
> "dpkg --configure -a" to clean things up once the upgrade finishes,
> which I think will set things right.
>
> Am I missing something, like some way to reply to the whiptail
> configuration prompts when doing a GUI upgrade? Or is this a bug that
> should be reported? I don't see anything in launchpad or forums
> regarding this.
>

I discovered what I needed to get into the terminal window when I 
inadvertently pressed the <tab> key. Sure wish it'd say something about 
that somewhere. Anyone else run into difficulty with this?

-- 
-Eric 'shubes'