upgrade hangs while mid of the upgrade process

[JD]

On 01/17/2013 12:21 AM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:10 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 01/16/2013 11:14 PM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>>>      ttf-mscorefonts-installer: downloading http://downloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/trebuc32.exe
>>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> --
>>> -------------------------
>>> \
>>>
>> 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?
>
Yes, that's true. However,
the downloader (unfortunately) sometimes gets stuck
in an infinite loop trying to recover from an error.
You simply have to kill it and restart the upgrade.

Good luck.