Thanks. apt-get -f install led me to dpkg --configure -a which finished
off the upgrade process. The machine seems to be up and running again.
Shabbat Shalom and Chag Sameach,
David Suna
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Yedidyah Bar-David wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:45:29AM +0300, David Suna wrote:
On my kids' computer I did a network upgrade from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04.
Unfortunately, during the upgrade process the machine was rebooted. The
machine boots now but when I log in under X the desktop doesn't come up
at all. I just get a blank beige window. I also don't know what else
got messed up because of the interrupted upgrade. I can ssh into the
machine. I did the upgrade using Synaptic and I am not very familiar
with apt commands. Can anyone tell me how I can fix this mess? To
complicate the problem, the dvd drive on that machine is broken so I
cannot boot from a rescue disk. I assume that there should be a way to
tell the system to complete the upgrade process but I don't know the
appropriate commands.
In general, getting apt to finish its stuff is usually done by
apt-get -f install
If it doesn't work, post the output. If it finishes well - can be
verified by running again - it should say it has nothing to do - you
should be ok. If you still have this problem, usual debugging is
needed...
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