On 01/16/2011 10:40 PM, Bill Kendrick wrote: > > Long story shoty. I have a Kubuntu 9.04 install. Finally told it to upgrade, > and it brought itself up to 9.10, and then I initiated an upgrade to 10.04. > It started reporting errors, with the only options being "Report Bug" (which > did nothing) and "Close" (dismiss error). > > It got through all of the pkgs in the "Upgrade" step (next step being > "Cleanup") and complained that some stuff wasn't installed, and it would > issue a "dpkg-reconfigure -a" or somesuch to fix itself. Dimissed that > window, then the main window hung (blank). > > It's late, and it looked in a bad state, so I zapped it and rebooted. > Now I'm landing im a shell upon reboot with a complaint about > "mountall" not taking some argument or another. > > So... anybody got a 10.10 disc I can borrow? I'd like to boot into LiveCD > mode, re-copy my home directory over to my NAS, and then wipe & reinstall. > I'd love to get back up and running before Tuesday. Anyone got one I can > grab in the morning? ;) > > This is the worst upgrade disaster I've witnessed. Stupid Ubuntu. :( > I can burn one for you in the morning. This is one reason why I do separate partitions for / and /home.
Have you tried an apt-get dist-upgrade with a force option from the command line to see if it just needs to rerun or finish some stuff. My upgrade along the same line went fine for my laptop a few months back. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech