ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 98, Issue 68

Gerardo Sanchez gandalf_9219 at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 18 18:03:06 UTC 2012



I can not install the update tells me there is an error but I do what I love q q I can do



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> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:22:32 +0000
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>    1. upgrading to 12.04.1 stalled (Udvarias Ur)
>    2. upgrading to 12.04.1 stalled (Udvarias Ur)
>    3. Re: upgrading to 12.04.1 stalled (Steve Flynn)
>    4. Re: upgrading to 12.04.1 stalled (Tom H)
>    5. upgrading to 12.04.1 stalled...more info (Udvarias Ur)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:24:44 -0400
> From: Udvarias Ur <udvarias1 at gmail.com>
> To: Ubuntu users mailing list <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: upgrading to 12.04.1 stalled
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> Folks,
> 
> I finally started my upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04.1 yesterday. This was
> the first time I upgraded the OS, as opposed to individual packages or
> applications. (I'll grant that when I installed the *Ubuntu* from an
> 11.04 disk it automatically asked me if wanted to upgrade to 11.10,
> which was really fast so I expected it to be the same from 11.10 to
> 12.04.1.)
> 
> Though I usually watch the entire process of upgrades preformed by
> *Update Manager*, as it does not provide an option to save a log of what
> it does, I found that this upgrade was taking so long that I decide to
> turn off the monitor (to save power) and go to bed. At one point during
> the night I woke, so I got out of bed to check the progress of the upgrade.
> 
> I found that the upgrade had completed finished
>         *Getting new packages*
> and move on to
>         *Installing the upgrades*
> and that the *Terminal* was now available. So I open the *Terminal*. I
> wanted to save the output on the *Terminal*, so I highlighted it all and
> pressed Ctrl-c. I immediately got the dialogue box
> 
>           +--------------------------------------------------------------+
>           |                                                              |
>           |    Ctrl-c pressed                                            |
>           |                                                              |
>           |    This will abort the operation and may leave the system in |
>           |    a broken state. Are you sure you want to do this?         |
>           |                                                              |
>           |                                   +-------+    +-------+     |
>           |                                   |  No   |    |  Yes  |     |
>           |                                   +-------+    +-------+     |
>           +--------------------------------------------------------------+
> 
> The *No* button was highlighted, regardless I clicked on the *No* button
> with the mouse. In my effort to save the output I did this another few
> times thinking that I'd done it incorrectly, all to no avail.
> 
> The last line in the *Terminal* was:
> 
>             *Reading database ... 50%*
> 
> This did not change for some time so I decided to turn off the monitor
> and go back to bed. When I checked the system on waking this still did
> not change.
> 
> Now, I could restore the back-up image of the *Ubuntu* partition I made
> before I initiated the upgrade and start all over. However, that would
> mean another 4+ hours of *Getting new packages*, so if there is any way
> I can get this upgrade working again I would prefer it.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -- 
> Udvarias Ur
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:45:19 -0400
> From: Udvarias Ur <udvarias1 at gmail.com>
> To: Ubuntu users mailing list <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: upgrading to 12.04.1 stalled
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> Folks,
> 
> I forgot to mention. The system is still up and running Ubuntu 11.10.
> 
> -- 
> Udvarias Ur
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:47:13 +0100
> From: Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
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> Subject: Re: upgrading to 12.04.1 stalled
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> On 18 October 2012 16:24, Udvarias Ur <udvarias1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > and that the *Terminal* was now available. So I open the *Terminal*. I
> > wanted to save the output on the *Terminal*, so I highlighted it all and
> > pressed Ctrl-c. I immediately got the dialogue box
> 
> For future reference, when you highlight the text in a terminal, it's
> copied to the clipboard immediately - no need to press and Control
> keystroke combinations. To paste it, click the middle mouse button,
> although many apps will also respond to CTRL-V too, if that's
> ingrained in you.
> 
> > This did not change for some time so I decided to turn off the monitor and
> > go back to bed. When I checked the system on waking this still did not
> > change.
> 
> Hit the enter key or press the backspace key a few times. There's a
> chance you've typed a character (or several) into the output and that
> the shell has stopped any further output because it thinks you're
> about to give it some more text to execute when the current command
> ends.
> 
> If you've inadvertently hit CTRL-S (pause output) you'll need to hit
> CTRL-Q (resume output) so it's worth hitting CTRL-Q too, just in case.
> 
> -- 
> Steve
> 
> When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
> people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
> 
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:56:26 -0400
> From: Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com>
> To: Ubuntu Users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: upgrading to 12.04.1 stalled
> Message-ID:
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> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 18 October 2012 16:24, Udvarias Ur <udvarias1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> and that the *Terminal* was now available. So I open the *Terminal*. I
> >> wanted to save the output on the *Terminal*, so I highlighted it all and
> >> pressed Ctrl-c. I immediately got the dialogue box
> >
> > For future reference, when you highlight the text in a terminal, it's
> > copied to the clipboard immediately - no need to press and Control
> > keystroke combinations. To paste it, click the middle mouse button,
> > although many apps will also respond to CTRL-V too, if that's
> > ingrained in you.
> 
> ctrl-shift-c and ctrl-shift-v
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:22:23 -0400
> From: Udvarias Ur <udvarias1 at gmail.com>
> To: Ubuntu users mailing list <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: upgrading to 12.04.1 stalled...more info
> Message-ID: <50802CBF.50405 at gmail.com>
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> 
> Folks,
> 
> Using *ps* I found the process I believe to be *Update Manger*.
> 
> I ran *ps -F e 2639* and got the output below.
> 
> UID        PID  PPID  C    SZ   RSS PSR STIME TTY      STAT   TIME CMD
> root      2639  2638  1 60192 37808   0 Oct17 ?        Sl    14:26
> /usr/bin/python /tmp/update-manager-9F02w8/precise
> 
> So it seems that the upgrade process has not stopped or aborted but is
> merely in a state of
> 
>     S    interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
>     l    is multi-threaded (using CLONE_THREAD, like NPTL pthreads do)
> 
> How can I reset it? i.e. back to
> 
>     R    running or runnable (on run queue)
> 
> -- 
> Udvarias Ur
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