upgrade hangs while mid of the upgrade process

[JD]

On 01/17/2013 07:54 AM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
> 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?
>

look in /boot

What is the latest kernel? there?