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Yes, that worked and I was then able to run dpkg to complete the upgrade.

Nice one, thanks.

Yes, I had the same problem with the recovery shell being read only so I used Knoppix to edit the fstab file but even when I comment all the entries out it still halts on this error.

Knoppix was...

cat /etc/fstab

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
#...

Exactly the same thing happened to me, I can't get past this error at all, please help.