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.

Harriscomputer

Leroy Tennison
Network Information/Cyber Security Specialist
E: le...@datavoiceint.com


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