12.04 Upgrade Frozen

[John Scott]

Never mind.  I brought up a task manager and found a dropbox process 
using a constant 33% CPU.  I killed this process and the installation 
continued.

This makes me wonder why (in 2012) the coders didn't think to allow 
skipping a non-critical package installation.  In theory, a failed 
screen saver or wallpaper install can corrupt a linux box you've been 
using for years--a grievous oversight.

On 4/29/2012 3:41 PM, John Scott wrote:
> I started the upgrade process a few hours ago and noticed that the 
> upgrade process is frozen while downloading Dropbox.  The terminal 
> window displays:
> Downloading Dropbox... 46%
>
> There is no dialog prompt and as far as I can tell there is no way to 
> abort the download and skip this single item.  Any suggestions or is 
> this installation of Ubuntu now doomed?
>
> John S.
>