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Folks,

I started a release upgrade via the software updater from 18.04 to 20.04. It went through the Preparing to upgrade → Setting new software channels → Getting new packages fine. And then its been in 'installing the upgrades' for nearly 5 hours now. Progress bar at less than 10% of its width, its the same all these hours. However in the terminal I can see that packages are indeed being installed. I keep getting 'Preparing to unpack...' , 'unpacking...', '(Reading database...)' etc... over and over with different packages, but I am surprised that it is taking this long and the progress bar shows just 10%...

A screenshot of the dist upgrade window:

Screenshot

Does this usually take this long? Any pointers/logs to look for that might indicate where the problem is? Is there a way to stop the upgrade?

When I do a top I see 'baloo_file_extr' taking most of the cpu... but I suppose this is ok?

Thanks!

Serg
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Mani
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Baloo indeed turned out to be the problem. I tried disabling it with balooctl but that complained about the absence of a specific version of some library. I assume this is because a release upgrade is in progress.

So I had to explicitly kill the process. Once I did that, the upgrade started progressing much quicker….. about 60% done in 2 hours..

Mani
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