Bug#416944: dist-upgrade stuck

[Lou Poppler <lwp@mail.msen.com>]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, peter green wrote:

> > I find it stuck in tasksel.  The screen shows "Package configuration"
> > on the very top line, and a text box in the middle saying:
> > "Installing packages \  Installed libdiscover1  "
> > and a status bar stuck at 75%.
> if the seperate tasksel is anything like that in d-i i bet its getting stuck on a conffile prompt or something.
>
> i'd suggest you install a desktop with apt-get install gnome-core and then just install what you want from there.

Thanks guys.  I killed the chain of processes lead by this tasksel, then
fired up aptitude to see how things looked.  Aptitude insisted that I
should run: dpkg --configure -a
I ran that, and dpkg finished up installing the desktop stuff.
I did a quick update/upgrade and [re-]installed ssh/sshd in aptitude.
Everything looks back to normal now -- gnome is up and running; Etch seems
to be happily installed now on this box.

Thanks again.

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