Please close this. This system died 2 days later, completely. So there was probably some lurking hardware issue that only showed its little ugly head here. Sorry.
I would still be curious if there is a way to 'undo' a partially installed package, manually. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/716134 Title: 'dpkg --configure -a' hangs -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs