12-7-07 gutsy update broke

[Caleb Marcus]

Could you try it in recovery mode? When the system starts booting, hit
escape to get into the Grub menu. You should be able to select recovery
mode there.
On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 20:41 -0500, John Dangler wrote:

> Sorry for the TP (my BB is the only network I have at the moment).
> I did force updates with dpkg.  In the middle of that, apt performed a
> restart of nm, and it hung the machine. Only a hard reset helped. Now
> after the reboot I have no networking.
> 
> Jack - BB
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Caleb Marcus <caleb.marcus at gmail.com>
> To: John Dangler; Ubuntu user technical support, not for general
> discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Fri Dec 07 19:32:28 2007
> Subject: Re: 12-7-07 gutsy update broke
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 09:50 -0500, John Dangler wrote:
> 
> > Got an update-notify this morning for libkpathsea4 (TeX search
> library
> > path).
> >
> > On selecting the update, got this immediately -
> >
> > E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> to
> > correct the problem.
> > E: _cache->open() failed, please report.
> >
> > Selecting 'Ok' here restarts the update manager.
> >
> > Jack
> 
> Try opening a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and running
> the command < sudo dpkg --configure -a >
> 
> 
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