When upgrading from Ubuntu 10.04 to 10.10 the distribution upgrade program freezes after it notifies me of a change in /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.mysqld and asks me to keep the old file or accept the new changes (I accepted them).
The terminal says:
Configuration file `/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld'
==> Modified (by you or by a script) since installation.
==> Package distributor has shipped an updated version.
What would you like to do about it ? Your options are:
Y or I : install the package maintainer's version
N or O : keep your currently-installed version
D : show the differences between the versions
Z : start a shell to examine the situation
The default action is to keep your current version.
*** usr.sbin.mysqld (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? y
Installing new version of config file /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld ...
The program hasn't done anything after this for about 2 hours now and I have no idea what I should do at this point. Can I quit the program and restart it? Or is there another action I should take?
It did however change the '/etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld' to the new version, but is still frozen…
Best Answer
I also encountered this error while upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10. However, AppArmor was not installed. Therefore, the following fixed the problem for me:
After running this command from a separate SSH session, the upgrade continued.