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freez up when updating from 7.10 to 8.4 at generating locals 3 minutes left 2 hours ago.

Asked by dleewea

up dating to 8.04, this is the third try,still hanging up at generating locales. says 3 minutes remaning, that was over two hours ago. any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks dlee

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KGFMH (kgfmh1) said : 		#1

I have the same problem. There was a suggestion in one of the earlier 'Answers' which I have not yet had a chance to try.

To make sure system is fully updated/upgraded, from terminal type

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get clean all
give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.
Then please try to reconfigure gdm, from terminal or console type:
sudo dpkg-reconfiure gdm
restart your pc, type
sudo reboot
or halt it with:
sudo halt

Please let me know if it works. I won't have a chance to try until tomorrow. I have to start again with 7.10 reinstall, load the updates and then the 8.10 upgrade. It takes about 4 hours. I've done it twice. Each time the install has failed with 4 mins to go!

Ken kgfmh1@gmail .com

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KGFMH (kgfmh1) said : 		#2

To let you know I've done a successful upgrade to 8.04. I first did a clean install of 7.10 from CD and then went straight to upgrade without loading any updates. Best of luck.

Ken

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