Seeing that it was blocking while trying to access the cd, I mounted a cdrom and retried "dpkg --configure -a". It worked this time.
Note: I had to reboot before I could mount my cdrom. -- Upgrade of gstreamer0.8 plugins freezes https://launchpad.net/bugs/41749 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
