Jul

23

If you have attempted to upgrade Ubuntu from Gutsy to Hardy using Ubuntu’s update manager, you may have encountered the problem that after downloading the packages while installed, everything went fine until the “Generating locales” portion, at which point the process froze. It displays this:


Generating locales...
en_AU.UTF-8...

And the following way happen:

It freezes and if you tried logging out, which froze before seeing the login screen. When you restarted and logged in again, it froze right afterwards, mouse and keyboard inputs are not locked out, but it just sits there and does nothing.

If that’s the case for you, don’t worry, here is the fix:

1. Reboot your computer, and before it loads Ubuntu desktop, press ESC to enter the GRUB menu
2. Select the previous version of the kernel xxx.14 rather than xxx.15 (sorry I can’t recall the exact version numbers) - don’t select the fail-safe mode.
3. Log-in as your admin user into recovery mode
4. Manually (re)start the upgrade via a terminal session: dpkg –configure -a



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  1. deesh1531982 on July 25, 2008 9:57 pm

    i thought my Ubuntu was dead… until i use my Mac and found this fix, now my Ubuntu is back to life again! thanks a lot!

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