!! HELP !! UpGrade Problems

[4-PackDad]

Hey;

I tried to go to 8.0.4 from 7.10...

Upgrade 'froze-up'.
Last message was ...
Generating locals
en.au.utf-8...

Sat at this point for hours.
Did not see any HD activity.

Good or Bad, I rebooted.

Got the Message...
Failed to Initiate HAL!

I get a blank screen.

I can get to my PC thru Failsafe Gnome

Can Not get to the internet.

Proxy server can not be found.

System
Admin
Network
The configuration could not be loaded.
You are not allowed to access the system configuration

...
Now What...?
I'm still New to Ubuntu...

Thnx,
Bill

[Pumalite]

Try rebooting and going into an earlier kernel in Recovery Mode.
There:
dpkg --configure -a
That might get you through.

[4-PackDad]

OK;

I'll give it a shot if you tell me how.
I've only been usung Ubuntu for not quite a year.
Haven't had a change to delve under the hood.

Login Screen
Options
Select Sessions
??Failsafe Ternimal?? (is what I need)??

Then What???

Other options are:

Last Session
run Xclient Script
Gnome
Secure Rmnote Connection
Failsafe Gnome
Failsfe Terminal

Thnx,
Bill

[Pumalite]

Can you see Grub? There, go to the OS you are upgrading, choose a previous kernel and instead of booting the kernel itsel, choose what comes below it: Recovery Mode

[4-PackDad]

Hey;

No Grub,,, or any other kind of bug...

In Failsafe Terminal Session...

I got to the following prompt.

grub>

Now what...?

Thnx,
Bill

[4-PackDad]

OK;

Sorta,,, figured out the "Kernel" thing...

What 'kernel' do I need.
Presume going back to 7.10.

Command options are...

kernel [-no-mem-option] [-type=type]

Need some explaining on this.

Thnx,
Bill

[Pumalite]

If you hyave no Grub; use:
Ctrl+Alt+F1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6) to get a CLI
Then:
sudo dpkg --configure -a

[4-PackDad]

The moment the install freezes, run the terminal (Start menu - Accessories - Terminal). A window should pop up showing something like this
ubuntal@machine:~$

Enter "top" and press Enter (this step is optional, just for you to see what's going on inside the box).


ubuntal@machine:~$ top

You should see a localedef process at the top, consuming the CPU at about 99%. You should kill it.

To quit the top list, just click the "q" button. Now you need to find out the localedef's id.

In the terminal window enter
ubuntal@machine:~$ ps -fe | grep locale

You should see something like this
ubuntal@machine:~$ ps -fe | grep locale

root 17061 15634 0 11:21 ? 00:01:14 localedef some-options-here...
root 15634 1 1 11:20 ? 00:02:29 locale-gen some-options-here...



This means that the upgrade is executing locale-gen, and locale-gen is executing localedef. To kill the bad process, enter (note: in your case the number will be different, just enter your number instead of 15634)


ubuntal@machine:~$ sudo kill -9 15634

The update should now continue. If it freezes again, kill locale-gen again (the number will again be different).

Then after the upgrade and restart, open a terminal window and enter


ubuntal@machine:~$ sudo localedef --no-archive -i en_AU -c -f UTF-8 en_AU.UTF-8

In your case it's probably en_US instead of en_AU. To check it's been fixed, go


ubuntal@machine:~$ locale
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_AU.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

ubuntal@machine:~$ exit


Hope this makes sense.

Hey;

Finally got it all figured out......
Should have done more searching first before posting a new thread.
RE:Hardy 8.04 update freezes on generating locals