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FooBar3
October 18th, 2010, 07:30 PM
Hi there. I'm currently upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 and the screen is stuck at:



*** 00_header (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/00_header ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/10_linux ...
Setting up grub-pc (1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ...
Removing update-grub hooks from /etc/kernel-img.conf in favour of
/etc/kernel/ hooks.


Any ideas? I've tried Ctrl-C on the upgrade terminal, nothing happened. 0% CPU use for "Maverick" which I believe is the installer, so I'm pretty sure it isn't still working. Is it very dangerous to stop the installer? I hate to stop it on the grub stage since I'd very much like for the computer to boot.

FooBar3
October 19th, 2010, 07:21 PM
Figured it out. I killed (both) Maverick processes in Process Monitor. Then opened up the command line and typed these commands to finish the upgrade:



sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get autoremove


If it prompts you to change your grub file, just keep your old one. I stuck with all the defaults during the "dpkg --configure -a" command by the way. That seemed to work well for me. I did a restart and it booted fine. I'm not entirely sure but I think what caused it to crash was the grub upgrade wizard. After I killed the Maverick upgrade, a grub configuration wizard came up. Anyway, it all worked out in the end.

I really like the new look!

Cosworth32
November 2nd, 2010, 07:43 PM
I had the same problem on a samsung NC10 netbook. You fixed helped me as well. Thanks

red03golf
March 1st, 2012, 11:13 PM
Exact same thing just happened to me.

Hard shut down (hold power button for 5 seconds),
restart,
recovery mode,
repair broken packages,
keep existing grub,
restart,
recovery mode,
drop to root shell with networking,

(then same commands):
dpkg --configure -a,
apt-get install -f,
apt-get install autoremove,

all better.