[DC LoCo] thoughts on recovering from power off during distro upgrade?

[Frank J. Gómez]

Hello,

I was upgrading a laptop from Ubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 when my cat made himself
a seat on the keyboard.  (I was away from the machine.)  This laptop's
unfortunate instinct when tons of keys are pressed is to power off.  By the
time this occurred, all required packages had been downloaded and
installation of packages was underway.

I don't have the laptop with me just now, but I'm uncertain of what to do
when I look at it again tonight or tomorrow.  I suppose I could just boot up
and see what happens -- perhaps the upgrader is smart enough to know that
smart went crazy last time around and will make helpful suggestions.  Or
perhaps there's a dpkg command I can run that will take all uninstalled
packages on the machine and install them; that doesn't seem out of the
question... but what about the package that was in process of being
installed when the power off occurred?  Lost cause?

Thanks for your input!
-Frank
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