[ubuntu-uk] System hosed during network upgrade to 8.10

[George MacLeod]

Alan,
just thought I'd get back to you, I had a crack at this again today and
found that many others
<http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=963853>have had the same
problem. I finally go back to the Gnome Desktop but the
upgrade has removed Open Office, Firefox, Network Manger, Compiz Fusion etc.
etc. I started reinstalling packages and finally tried to get Compiz Fusion
going again so I installed xorg-driver-fglrx for my ATI Radeon X600 video
card. This just caused another freeze on re-boot so I removed the driver.

I have decide to do a fresh install of 8.04.1 and steer clear of 8.10 for
the time being as this has been the most catastrophic upgrade I've ever seen
and I will not be upgrading any of my other machines.

Cheers
George

2008/10/31 Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>

> 2008/10/31 George MacLeod <bhaltair at gmail.com>:
> > I have been using Ubuntu since 5.04 and have never had a major problem
> until
> > now. I have upgrade before via CD and via the network and always with
> only
> > minor issue, if any, until now. I ran the network upgrade as before to go
> > from 8.04 to 8.10 and everything went as it had in the past, until the
> final
> > stage when I was asked to OK the removal of obsolete packages. I thought
> > nothing of it as this is normal, but alarm bells stated ringing when I
> saw
> > Firefox, Evolution, compiz and Xorg being removed, but the process had
> > already started.
> >
> > I then clicked restart at the end and that's when I realised all was not
> > well
>
> This was possibly not wise. For future reference if you have a
> situation where the system is in a dodgy state, a restart is probably
> not the best course of action at that point.
>
> > I've tried to reboot several times with the same result and booting into
> > recovery mode just leaves me hanging at a terminal prompt.
> >
>
> A logon prompt? If so can you logon okay?
>
> > Needless to say I will not be upgrading any of my other machines until I
> can
> > get this fixed.
>
> Conversely I have upgraded 5 machines and not had this kind of issue.
>
> > My PC is a Dell Dimension Dual boot with XP on a corporate LAN.
> >
>
> What's the package history on the machine? Have you ever used
> automatix or something similar to install packages? What do you have
> in /etc/apt/sources.list and any files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ?
>
> Is the "ubuntu-desktop" package still installed (assuming you can get
> logged in), type this:-
>
> dpkg -l ubuntu-desktop
>
> (that's a lower case L).
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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