broken dist upgrade

[James Takac]

On Wednesday 24 October 2007 09:31:12 NoOp wrote:
> On 10/23/2007 04:03 PM, James Takac wrote:
> > Hi Guys
> >
> > I think my distribution upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 may have gone awry.
> > During the upgrade it had frozen during the installing (after updating
> > software channels) and was stuck there for over 8 hours. No cancel button
> > of course so I had to kill the process. When trying to restart I get a
> > list of updates for 7.10 but am then told to sudo dpkg --configure -a to
> > fix things. However this to hangs with "setting up cfs (1.4.1-18)" and
> > never gets any further. Is it possible to fix this or am I likely better
> > off downloading the install disk and going from there?
> >
> > James
>
> Sounds very much like the problem that I had with one of my systems. For
> some reason /etc/apt/sources.list did not get updated to include:
>
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted universe
> multiverse
>
> As a result I think that critical pieces weren't properly installed
> during the upgrade & then when you reboot they can't be found by the
> system.
>
> # apt-get update
> # apt-get upgrade
> # apt-get dist-upgrade
> # apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
>
> seemed to have fixed it for me.

Thx

I'll give that a go. So far I haven't rebooted

James