I just changed theme from Human to Clearlooks and tried with your debug5: the upgrade process is getting several steps further now! Unfortunately it still became unresponsive a couple of steps later. Repeated attempts resulted in stop at same new place, see attached main.log.
** Attachment added: "main.log" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14155750/main.log -- hardy upgrade crashes at "preparing upgrade" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222801 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