Hardy 8.04 update freezes on generating locales

[DavidTangye]

im wondering though if i tried ubuntals fix which was killing the unresponsive process how exactly do i do that because i cant get the "top" command to work in any script i open.

ps -ef

[jjtstan]

I've got the same problem as Edward4310. When I boot up & hite Esc (GRUB?) I get three kernel options, 2.6.22-19-generic, 22-15-generic, 22-14-generic, and their recovery modes.

I initially booted into kernel 22.14's recovery mode and ran dpkg -- configure -a, and the system hung on generating locales. I didn't think to kill the locale generation processes, rebooted and tried again, and then tried running dpkg --configure -a in kernel 15 and kernel 19.

Now there's no locale problems, but no matter which kernel I boot into, I get the same errors as Edward4310:

dpkg: too many errors, stopping
dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:251: process_queue: Assertion `!queuelen' failed.eric (recovery mode), -15

If I try going into GNOME failsafe mode, the login & password are typed in using giant characters (the text entry boxes are normal size, but the text I'm entering looks like it's 48-point font, so I only see a small portion of the characters), and then I get a plain beige screen with no icons, no menus, no nothing. The mouse tracks around, but there's nothing to click on, no way to raise a terminal window.

I was running Gutsy 7.10 on a Dell Inspiron 530 with Nvidia graphics card (Dell-installed Ubuntu).

Any suggestions where to go from here?

Alternatively, instructions on how to copy my hard disk's contents onto a portable hard drive using the command line in recovery mode would be appreciated. Then I could just re-install the entire OS.

[Janeleaper]

This is a Dell related problem. I had it too on my Dell 530.

I'm not technically competent, but I got good help on the Dell forum. Look for my thread there.

[Janeleaper]

This was Prinknash's advice to me - which worked:

After pressing F2, you enter 'Setup'.
- At the 'Integrated Peripherals' screen, go to SATA mode and select RAID (rather than the default IDE)
- Save changes and reboot.


The only problem I was left with was a black margin down one side of the screen. That can be dealt with by using the monitor buttons to auto-adjust.

[jjtstan]

Okay, I'm continuing to fail in new and spectacular ways. Updates on this other thread:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...58#post5661158

Any help appreciated.

[hubie]

I've got the hang on en_AU.UTF-8 as well. Does anyone have an idea why I am using the AU locale anyway? Does it generate all the locales by default, and AU just happens to be the first one it comes to? When I originally installed, I told it I live in the US, etc.

[hubie]

I followed the instructions from the third post and it worked out well for me. I had to reboot once and do the dpkg --configure -a command a second time, but now all is well. My thanks to all who gave helpful advice in this thread.

Because I got the update to continue, I answered my above post regarding the AU locale. It does do all the locales and the AU is the first on the list.

[jjtstan]

My problem got solved, and Hardy is up and running, all data preserved.

I put the details in the related thread over in the Dell forum.

Thanks again to everyone for their help.

[wlangston]

I tried the suggested fix and booted the .14 kernel, ran dpkg, and it worked and upgraded to 8.04. However, it still does not log in, and when I try to run dpkg again, it outputs a bunch of lines, followed by this:

dpkg: too many errors, stopping
dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:251: process_queue: Assertion `!queuelen' failed.

I waited a long while before upgrading to Hardy - you would think bugs like this would be worked out by now. Why are so many people having trouble upgrading and no solutions to fix this?

I got to the same place. I found this thread (see post #15):
http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums....=766448&page=2
So I rebooted into the newest kernel recovery mode (I actually don't think it matters at this point) and ran

dpkg --configure -a > error.log

like it says. Before the message above I got the same warning: The home dir /var/run/dbus you specified can't be accessed: No such file or directory. I created the directory

mkdir /var/run/dbus

and re-ran

dpkg --configure -a

and everything worked perfectly after that.

Good luck.

[z0r]

Whenever I tried to kill localedef, nothing would happen. Even kill -9 had no effect. The only way I could stop the process was to reboot, and most of the time I had to do a hard power off (by holding the power button down for a while).

In the end I had to de-select the en_AU locale to get it past this step. I edited

/var/lib/locales/supported.d/local

and removed the line:

en_AU.UTF-8

Then I ran this again:

dpkg --configure -a

This time it generated all the locales successfully, including en_AU. I'll try re-selecting it when I finish upgrading to 8.04.