Found it!
I viewed my processes using the Gnome System Monitor, rather than from the terminal, and it showed them in a tree form. When I followed down the tree from gksu->...->synaptics and on down I got to Firefox at the bottom. Firefox had popped up a warning message - in Firefox - as part of the configuration, and I hadn't exited Firefox. Having now done so, the configuration of Gnome is continuing.
Phew. Thanks for the help. Douglas.
Matthew Gregan wrote:
At 2005-01-21T14:59:26+1300, Douglas Royds wrote:
Another half hour down, and no visible change. I'm going to have to nuke it.
Obviously it's not visibly making any progress, but is it using any CPU, accessing the disk, or anything of the sort? It might be useful to attach to the hung process (mozillla, was it?) with gdb or strace and see what's going on.
What should I do?
Kill the hung process and the packaging system will continue configuring all of the packages that don't depend on the package that failed to configure. At that point, you're likely to have an inconsistent system to some degree. You'll need to work out why the package hung during the configure stage, find a solution, and then reconfigure it and any other 'broken' packages (which consists of running apt-get in 'fix broken' mode).
Cheers, -mjg
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