9.10 upgrade stuck on eBox

[neondiet]

My upgrade to 9.10 from 9.04 has come to a complete stop and I'm looking to get it going again. It's in the "Installing the upgrades" phase and the message below the progress bar is:

"Running post-installation trigger ebox"

Expanding the Terminal view shows the last messages were:


Processing trigger for ebox ...
WARNING **: Owner of /tmp/orbit-root is not the current user
* Restarting eBox module: apache
...done.


These are the processes running at the moment that have the string ebox in them:

root@dsv01:~# ps ax | grep -i ebox
23623 pts/3 Ss+ 0:02 /usr/bin/dpkg --force-overwrite --status-fd 5 --unpack --auto-deconfigure /var/cache/apt/archives/unzip_6.0-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/zip_3.0-1ubuntu1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/file-roller_2.28.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/ebox-objects_1.3.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/ebox-services_1.3.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/vlan_1.9-3build1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libgeoip1_1.4.6.dfsg-5_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libisc50_1%3a9.6.1.dfsg.P1-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libdns50_1%3a9.6.1.dfsg.P1-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libisccc50_1%3a9.6.1.dfsg.P1-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libisccfg50_1%3a9.6.1.dfsg.P1-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libbind9-50_1%3a9.6.1.dfsg.P1-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/liblwres50_1%3a9.6.1.dfsg.P1-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/bind9-host_1%3a9.6.1.dfsg.P1-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/dnsutils_1%3a9.6.1.dfsg.P1-3_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/iptables_1.4.4-1ubuntu1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libnet-arp-perl_1.0.4-1_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/librrd4_1.3.1-4ubuntu2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/rrdtool_1.3.1-4ubuntu2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/librrds-perl_1.3.1-4ubuntu2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/wget_1.11.4-2ubuntu2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/traceroute_2.0.12-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/hostname_2.95ubuntu1_i386.deb
24135 pts/3 S+ 0:00 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/share/debconf/frontend /var/lib/dpkg/info/ebox.postinst triggered /usr/share/perl5/EBox
24146 pts/3 Z+ 0:00 [ebox.postinst] <defunct>
24194 ? Ss 0:01 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -f /var/lib/ebox/conf/apache2.conf
24202 ? Sl 0:00 /usr/sbin/apache2 -k start -f /var/lib/ebox/conf/apache2.conf


I'm wondering, if I kill the perl process will the installation continue? I can always go back and sort out ebox at a later date, or remove it. I only installed it in the first place because I was curious to see how it worked.

-nd

[neondiet]

To answer my own question: killing the Perl process was the right thing to do as /var/lib/dpkg/info/ebox.postinst wasn't doing anything essential. I checked first. The upgrade is proceeding now.

-nd