I was regularly suffering from this bug, but I have successfully upgraded to Karmic beta. The OS upgrade uses a separate tool, which doesn't suffer from the problem.
Even better, packagekit in karmic works rather better, and no longer suffers from this bug. -- packagekit says: The backend took too much time to process the synchronous request - you need to fork! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272410 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs