Upgrading fro 7.10 to 8.04 locks up.

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This upgrade on an Acer Inspire 1360 freezes with 7 minutes to run, last entry says 'en utf-8--'opened a terminal and tried 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' got the message 'database area is locked by another process' This is the second time it's done it, any suggestions please.

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Best Daniel Schwitzgebel (schwitzd) said :
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Ricci (riccisayer) said :
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Thanks Daniel Schwitzgebel, that solved my question.

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Alecz20 (alexguzu) said :
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I order to avoid the hand run the upgrade from the older kernel (2.6.22-14)

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Alecz20 (alexguzu) said :
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* I meant the hang :)