[SOLVED] Update manager stuck?

[alayahlan]

While performing the recommended updates, the update manager seems to have stuck for the last 10 minutes or so on one particular update. This is the first time I've had anything hang up...so I really wasn't sure what I should do. I attatched a screenshot. I have no closed the update manager or anything yet.

[alayahlan]

Okay...so after no response from here (or a few of my friends I was waiting on) 40 minutes of hang time got to me and I attempted to reboot. This was apparently a BAD idea because now after the initial login screen I'm stuck at a nice gradient peach blank page. Nothing....

HELP!

[Pumalite]

Try to get in Recovery Mode and do:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get diat-upgrade

[alayahlan]

How do I get to recovery mode?

I can choose to change sessions before the login screen and can select from:

()Last Session
1.Run Xclient script
2.GNOME
3.Failsafe_GNOME
4.Failsafe_Terminal


Do I want the failsafe_terminal to run that?

[alayahlan]

Try to get in Recovery Mode and do:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get diat-upgrade

first command attempts to reinstall the update that got stuck....but it continues to hangup in the same place on the terminal screen. How do I get past this update or skip/remove it?

it says:
Setting up language-pack-fr-base (1:7.10+20080205)
Generating locales...
fr_BE.UTF.8...

[alayahlan]

A call to Ubuntu support solved. :)

[a0u]

I'm glad to see the that problem is solved.

Just FYI...


How do I get to recovery mode?

When you boot the computer, there is a GRUB screen that appears after the BIOS. Press Esc to enter the GRUB menu; there should be a recovery mode option in the list. But remember, if you do not have a dual-boot system, you have only three seconds to press Esc before the normal Ubuntu starts.

[alayahlan]

That's exactly what Ubunutu support had me do.

[gstanley]

That's exactly what Ubunutu support had me do.

What exactly did they have you do? I tried to run the "dpkg --configure -a" from the recovery console and it still hangs trying to setup up the "fr" package.