I tried to upgrade to Edgy

[Edward Craig]

I failed.
My surmise is that among the graphical applications I should have
exited is the Screen Saver, as when I noticed it frozen,  the disc
access LED was solid on. Rebooting (which I could accomplish omly via
a reset) failed on an X error message indicating missing X
configuration files.
It took a bit more than the 19 hours predicted to download over a
dialup 56 modem, like about 41, but I think that's irrelevent, albeit
disappointing.
Perxhance someone here can instuct me in how to recover my hosed
system, else I'll  reinstall, eventually.
Live CD's are useful as stopgap.

-- 
Edward P. Craig
"Think this through with me. Let me know your mind"      Hunter/Garcia