broken dist upgrade

[James Takac]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:31:12 am 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.



Hi NoOp

This is getting strange. Rebooted and got a kernel panic so I booted the 
previous kernel. That came up fine, logged in and was greeted with the setup 
for the kde desktop. Was using gnome before and did not chose kde. But it's 
working here for now. Reran sudo dpkg --configure -a and it appears (is going 
right now) to be going through everything. No longer sticking. So maybe 
(fingers crossed) this will fix it? Did the dist upgrade change the desktop 
manager without asking me? Hopefully I don't need to go through this with the 
other 2 still to be upgraded. The change of desktop I don't mind so much. 
Functionality first ;)

James