I had a very similar problem using the xfce front-end. Things started going poorly toward the end of the pam upgrade where the daemon was restarted. It hung there for more than an hour with no system activity. I killed the restart job and the upgrade resumed. It eventually decided to fail. I'm restarting from scratch.
** Attachment added: "dist-upgrade.tar.gz" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/10083769/dist-upgrade.tar.gz -- Situation is critical for me: network upgrade failed-updater has hanged in the middle, system is in intermediate state and I see no way to resume update (Kubuntu x64 7.04 to 7.10) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154434 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs