Comment 11 for bug 353251

I have a tangled system due to this bug. I tried to upgrade from intrepid from console using aptitude dist-upgrade and the upgrade is severely (?) hung. I would appreciate a "fix" for those of us with hung/broken systems, i.e. what sequence of commands will get python2.6 working so all of the packages and upgrade systems depending on it can get back on track. I ack that the most important fix for the ubuntu team is to get the packages cleaned up so this does not happen. But please also post here instructions on untangling a broken upgrade. Thanks.