Comment 14 for bug 186465

There are checkmarks by the different pieces of the update GUI. However, there are 155 pieces (or so it said) and they appear in alphabetic or semi-alphabetic order. I don't know whether they load in that order or if they load based on dependencies. The problem may lie in dependencies.
pw

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From: <email address hidden> on behalf of raccoonone
Sent: Sat 4/5/2008 1:36 PM
To: Paul Webster
Subject: [Bug 186465] Re: "distribution upgrade" hangs during update to hardy

How do I skip parts of the upgrade? I'd be happy to test that.

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"distribution upgrade" hangs during update to hardy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186465
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Status in Update Manager: Confirmed

Bug description:
I tried upgrading to Hardy using "update-manager -d". After checking for updates, I get a button to upgrade to 8.04, which I pressed. This brings up the distribution upgrade dialog, showing the various steps its going to do. This dialog shows the progress bar advancing a bit, and then it becomes totally unresponsive, not even repainting its own window.

see also http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=676090

The terminal shows

mbp@lithe% sudo update-manager -d
warning: could not initiate dbus
extracting '/tmp/tmpT6yx7G/hardy.tar.gz'
authenticate '/tmp/tmpT6yx7G/hardy.tar.gz' against '/tmp/tmpT6yx7G/hardy.tar.gz.gpg'
zsh: quit (core dumped) sudo update-manager -d

/var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log has

2008-01-28 10:00:50,223 INFO release-upgrader version '0.87.4' started
2008-01-28 10:00:50,762 DEBUG Using 'DistUpgradeViewGtk' view
2008-01-28 10:00:50,948 DEBUG lsb-release: 'gutsy'
2008-01-28 10:00:50,949 DEBUG _pythonSymlinkCheck run
2008-01-28 10:00:52,279 DEBUG checkViewDepends()