broken dist upgrade

[James Takac]

On 10/24/07, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> 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


Updates have finally gone through it seems. however I am now unable to
connect to the net at all via that pc. Can´t even connect to the router.
However I can ping it (the router) and my isp successfully. Interestingly
itś also back to the gnome desktop without any intervention from me

James
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