Hello Leroy,
Probably not all packages were downloaded/installed.
Depending on where you were on the upgrade process the Crtl-c may try to
reverse the install.
You can use the livecd to boot/chroot into that installation, check if your
apt config is pointing to xenial repositories (something like grep
xenial /etc/apt/sources.list should output several lines) and then try to
finish it: sudo apt update + sudo apt dist-upgrade.
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 9:37 PM Leroy Tennison
wrote:
> I was upgrading a headless unit from Ubuntu server 14.04 to 16.04 when I
> accidentally hit Ctrl-C. The result was the process aborted and wouldn't
> restart ("another process is running"). I searched the web and came up
> with a few possibilities. I removed the lock and lock-frontend files, at
> this point 'dpkg --configure -a' appeared to re-launch the process which
> proceeded but ended with errors. I made some configuration file changes
> and rebooted, the initial Ubuntu startup screen didn't even appear.
>
>
> Obviously I made a (or multiple) mistake(s). Now my question is "What can
> I do to recover using Live media?" I presume I could do a re-install
> without formatting the root file system but I'm wondering if there's a less
> drastic approach and order of things I should try. Thanks for your help.
>
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