Maasi the gist of my post was manually uninstalling/installing half the broken packages in tty, led me to finally being able to use the grep broken command. The packages, need to run the danged command I had somehow ripped out. Somehow that diligence got me to the operating system...
....as to your question, stalling out at RIT is not uncommon during update. It is 100% cured by trying it again until it sticks. Keep trying it will update.
