I just attempted to update to Hardy 8.04 and everything went fine until the "Generating locales" portion, at which point the process froze. It displays this:
Code:
Generating locales...
en_AU.UTF-8...
And then it just sat there for more than an hour, at which point I decided to close the installer and try again. Same thing happened. I tried logging out, which froze before seeing the login screen. When I restarted and logged in again, it froze right afterwards. And when I say froze for all instances, mouse and keyboard inputs are not locked out, but it just sits there and does nothing, no matter what I do. I restarted again and went into recovery mode, trying to manually do dpkg, which does the same thing with hanging on "generating locales". No other apt-get commands are accepted, saying that dpkg was interrupted and must be run manually.
I tried searching for solutions for this, but found nothing useful that helped. Can anyone help get the system running again? I don't care about Hardy (and actually from what I read after encountering this problem, I don't really want to upgrade to it), I just want a usable system back. When I went into recovery mode, the only options for the kernel boot were 7.10, so I am assuming it hasn't upgraded yet, but I still can't boot.
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