[SOLVED] Upgrade hangs on en_us.UTF8...

[LeGollemux]

I am upgrading my server from 7.1 to 8.04 LTS. On finnalising the upgrade with 6 minutes to go the installation froze on "setting up locales. (2.7.9-4)" while setting up "en-us.UTF8...".

after a few hours of waiting, I did the alt-F thing and typed sudo apt-get upgrade. it came back and said dpkg had been interrupted and I was to run it again with --configure -a set.

I did.. it got stuck again in the same place.

any suggestions?

[snowpine]

I am upgrading my server from 7.1 to 8.04 LTS. On finnalising the upgrade with 6 minutes to go the installation froze on "setting up locales. (2.7.9-4)" while setting up "en-us.UTF8...".

after a few hours of waiting, I did the alt-F thing and typed sudo apt-get upgrade. it came back and said dpkg had been interrupted and I was to run it again with --configure -a set.

I did.. it got stuck again in the same place.

any suggestions?

Hi there, check out this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=865679

It is a common problem, but there is a work-around. Good luck!

[null byte]

This guy had the same problem.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5573509&postcount=28

More info: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/langpack-locales/+bug/249340

[LeGollemux]

that was amazing. I got assistance in under a minute!!
Problem solved! Thank you.

I loaded the previous kernel. Logged in under "safe mode" and ran "dpkg --configure -a".

done.