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upgrade ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 freezes at en_AU.UTF-8

Asked by Dick McLean

On my third try to upgrade Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 the install hangs in the same place Generating Locales
en_AU.UTF-8
How can I continue or go back to 7.10 without re-install. I have a CD coming for 8.04 but I only ordered a week ago and I was just trying the upgrade hoping to make it work.

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Best Daniel Schwitzgebel (schwitzd) said : 		#1

look this
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249340

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Dick McLean (dickm37) said : 		#2

I guess I got a little nervous with it just sitting there not doing anything
 I ran the cd again and re-installed, so now I have to go through all the
updates with 7.10 then try the 8.04 again. This might be a dumb question for
some of you but on this "sudo killall locale-Gen" do you enter it on the
install progress screen or open the terminal window? I am not used to
commands what with just trying to get away from windows.

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From: Daniel Schwitzgebel
Date: 8/17/2008 3:11:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [Question #42402]: upgrade ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 freezes aten_AU
UTF-8

Your question #42402 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/42402

    Status: Open => Answered

Daniel Schwitzgebel proposed the following answer:
look this
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/249340

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Dick McLean (dickm37) said : 		#3

I guess I got a little nervous with it just sitting there not doing anything
 I ran the cd again and re-installed, so now I have to go through all the
updates with 7.10 then try the 8.04 again. This might be a dumb question for
some of you but on this "sudo killall locale-Gen" do you enter it on the
install progress screen or open the terminal window? I am not used to
commands what with just trying to get away from windows.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

When you need to give that instruction please open a terminal from Application->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo killall locale-gen

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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Dick McLean (dickm37) said : 		#5

Thanks Daniel Schwitzgebel, that solved my question.

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Dick McLean (dickm37) said : 		#6

I believe that after 4 re-installs, and a few nervous attacks I think I have the 8.04 working. Everything looks alright with no error notices. I went through the "sudo killall locale-gen" 4 times before it finally installed with errors in language support etc. I then used "sudo aptitude upgrade" and that took care of everything, this fix I took from PerJensen. I want to thank Daniel, PerJensen and everyone else that is fighting this bug.