Immediately following the download of new packages for the upgrade to Karmic Koala, I noticed it had hung up while attempting to turn off services which were going to be upgraded.
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mysql stopping...
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It happened that MySQL was the hold up, and because killing the upgrade process seemed like a risky operation – I needed to find a way to move it along.
I wasn’t able to turn up any other posts from the community about this issue – so I decided to take the usual approach: Start killing process with fingers crossed and blog the outcome!
Just so happens I nailed it on the first try:
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$ ps aux | grep mysql
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root 3624 0.0 0.0 5452 1744 pts/7 S+ 09:05 0:00 /usr/bin/mysqladmin --defaults-file=/etc/mysql/debian.cnf shutdown
$ sudo kill -9 3624 #your pid would be different...
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The upgrader picked up and moved right along at that point. Hurray!
Thanks, this worked for me :)
thanks a lot, it helped me during the install!