F11 upgrade - worse than Windows

[Peter J. Stieber]

TM = Timothy Murphy wrote:
TM>> I'm trying to upgrade a Thinkpad T23 (with preupgrade) from F10.
TM>> Everything went fine until "Finishing upgrade process",
TM>> which has been running now for 14 hours,
TM>> with that ghastly imitation-Windows yo-yo swinging from side to side.
TM>>
TM>> I am told, "This may take a little while" !!!
TM>>
TM>> Please, this is Linux.
TM>> Tell us what is happening,
TM>> and show us what progress is being made.

SA = Simon Andrews wrote:
SA> I saw this too (but not for that long).  Going into a
SA> shell I saw that anaconda was only taking ~2%CPU...

How did you get a shell when you were in the "Please wait while setup is 
finished.  This may take a while" state?

I'm stuck in this state with a desktop machine.  I'm updating F10 -> F11 
with the network install CD and can't tell why it is stuck.  I started 
the install 19 hours ago.

Any help would be appreciated,
Pete