upgrade hangs while mid of the upgrade process

[Abhishek Dixit]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:58 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Ok I did a Ctrl+C on the upgrade process
now when I do a do-release-upgrade

Checking for a new Ubuntu release
No new release found

How do I get back and install unfinished updates/upgrades?