I just came a cropper of this one too. The good news is it seems to be survivable. After the bug appeared, the upgrade tool was frozen trying to upgrade the next package in the sequence. I clicked the X to close the upgrader window and, IIRC, dismissed a warning. I then opened a konsole window and did a $ ps ax | grep apt and $ ps ax | grep adept, to locate any package management apps still open. I killed them (one was python, as I recall). I then removed the lock files as described by Mayeul KAUFFMANN further up the page. I then ran various combinations of $ sudo dpkg --configure -a, $ sudo apt-get (with various arguments) and now I am back at my desktop. See attached portion of my ~/.bash_history (survive.txt) file to see exactly what I did in order to survive.
** Attachment added: "my ~/.bash_history file detailing how I recovered." http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10261584/survive.txt -- Could not install 'debconf' during System upgrade 7.04 to 7.10 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/147429 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
