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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?

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

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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 4 '09 at 16:28
no it won't - you are installing anyway. :) curious to know - what make and model of network dongle? – caliban Sep 4 '09 at 16:44
It's a netgear dongle. Can't remember the make. It's always been a problem. – srboisvert Sep 4 '09 at 16:49
Wireless? Trawl the Ubuntu forums to make sure the dongle is supported, or there are workarounds. – caliban Sep 4 '09 at 16:57
netgear WG111T wireless usb – srboisvert Sep 4 '09 at 16:59
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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.

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