Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: update-manager
CONDITIONS: I was upgrading from Kubuntu Gutsy to Kubuntu Hardy via the
Adept Updater's Upgrade Manager. The Upgrade Manager had some issues
upgrading my timidity and virtualbox packages. (I'm pretty sure timidity
failed during configuration due to antiquated bluetooth references in my
ALSA config file, which the new ALSA doesn't like... I had modified the
ALSA config file heavily, so that's a perfectly acceptable corner case.)
Rather than forcing the removal of the timidity and virtualbox-ose
packages, Upgrade Manager presented a window during the "Clean Up" stage
saying, "Could not install the upgrades. The upgrade aborts now. Your
system could be in an unusable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg
--configure -a)."
BUG: The upgrade manager decided to freeze at that moment. I could the
dialog's Close button was unresponsive, and the Report Bug button didn't
even render correctly. (See attached screenshot.) I had to terminate the
entire updater, which I feel was not the intended result of displaying a
polite window saying it would run a recovery procedure. I believe the
desired behavior was it would run dpkg --configure -a, and tell me
either it fixed the problem or I was on my own, and then exit politely.
RANDOM NOTE: I had to kill the upgrader, and manually remove the
offending packages before running sudo apt-get install -f and rebooting.
Aside from freezing at this last stage, the update went very smoothly!
(Sound, bluetooth, X, wireless, Flash... haven't found anything broken
yet. Way to go Ubuntu Team!)
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Dist Upgrader freezes when presenting "Could not install the upgrades" window
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/234500
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