Ubuntu hardy to intrepid upgrade hung on starting bluetooth

Question

I have no bluetooth. Preliminary googling indicates that is probably an issue with some usb devices. I had an external drive, a mouse and a network dongle attached.

It is just stalled during the Installing the Upgrades phase - the last commands were "Creating device nodes"

Cancel will leave the system in a broken state.

What next?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 04 '09 at 16:24

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My bets are on the network dongle - remove it, install, then plug it back in.

answered Sep 04 '09 at 16:24

caliban

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But I have to kill the install that is currently in progress. Will it matter that it is in a broken state? – srboisvert Sep 04 '09 at 16:28
no it won't - you are installing anyway. :) curious to know - what make and model of network dongle? – caliban Sep 04 '09 at 16:44
It's a netgear dongle. Can't remember the make. It's always been a problem. – srboisvert Sep 04 '09 at 16:49
Wireless? Trawl the Ubuntu forums to make sure the dongle is supported, or there are workarounds. – caliban Sep 04 '09 at 16:57
netgear WG111T wireless usb – srboisvert Sep 04 '09 at 16:59
Oh it's supported just poorly and it's what I have so it's what I use. I've been using it with Hardy for quite some time with WICD but it is unreliable and sometimes interferes with booting. – srboisvert Sep 04 '09 at 17:01
read this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=258732 seems like it should only be plugged in after boot. Get a new one, they are not expensive nowadays. – caliban Sep 04 '09 at 17:37
Any suggestions what to get? I need something available in the UK. – srboisvert Sep 05 '09 at 20:29

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 05 '09 at 14:09

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If the upgrade is past the stage of downloading packages you may be able to do an apt-get dist-upgrade -f to repair it if you interrupt it.

answered Sep 05 '09 at 14:09

Col

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Ubuntu hardy to intrepid upgrade hung on starting bluetooth

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