upgrade hangs while mid of the upgrade process

[Abhishek Dixit]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:10 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 01/16/2013 11:14 PM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
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>> I was upgrading from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04
>>
>> sudo do-release-upgrade
>>
>> after this downloaded 700 Mb of packages in approximately 10 hours and upgrade etc started
>> I am finally stuck up here during the upgrade process
>> system has stopped with following message
>>
>>
>>     Setting up ubuntu-wallpapers (0.34.1) ...
>>     Setting up adium-theme-ubuntu (0.3.2-0ubuntu1) ...
>>     Setting up update-manager-core (1:0.156.14) ...
>>     Installing new version of config file /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades ...
>>     Setting up update-notifier-common (0.119ubuntu8.1) ...
>>     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
>>     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
>>     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe
>>     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe
>>     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/courie32.exe
>>     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/georgi32.exe
>>     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/impact32.exe
>>     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/times32.exe
>>     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/trebuc32.exe
>>
>>
>> If you notice probably in the last line where it mentions
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>>     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/trebuc32.exe
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>>
>> this is where it has hanged it either is unable to retrive the file or some thing happened here is there a way to get past this and proceed with upgrade?
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> Hi Abhi,
> In the past, I have experienced glitches while downloading from sourceforge.com.
> Usually, I have had to try some time later ... like a few hours later.
> Yeah.. it's a pain, but there does not seem to be any other way.
> It is a very very busy server!! So, sometimes it does get bogged down.
>
>
I am not doing any  download from sourceforge.com it is the upgrade
script which is doing this,
I have already spent more than three hours where on the terminal I see
nothing more than following line
 Setting up update-notifier-common (0.119ubuntu8.1) ...
     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe
    ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arial32.exe
     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/arialb32.exe
     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/comic32.exe
     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/courie32.exe
     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/georgi32.exe
     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/impact32.exe
     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/times32.exe
     ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/trebuc32.exe

where as if I manually download trebuc32.exe in Downloads folder it
gets downloaded easily ,what I want to know is installer some where
has hanged in between.Is there a way to by pass this?