broken dist upgrade

[James Takac]

On 10/24/07, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> On 10/23/2007 05:15 PM, James Takac wrote:
> > 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
> >
>
> If I recall, it did the same to me. I blew out kde and then had to do
> the same again after:
> dpkg --configure -a
> apt-get -f install
> apt-get update
> apt-get upgrade
> etc.
>
> My guess is that this system was loaded with so much old installs that
> the basic upgrade just couldn't handle it. All seems well again with my
> system, but it was pretty messy & very frustrating. The other systems
> seemed to do well (except the apparmor stuff & a few other problems that
> were easily fixed).
>
> Gary
>
>
> Hi Gary



It ended up reverting to gnome again upon a further reboot. However I seem
to have lost my networking ability.  The network icon is still visible but
the only thing I can do is to ping the  router or  my isp or web address
etc. Cant  browse the net, the network, or download emails, get updates,
etc. None of that is working. When looking at the network settings itś still
set to auto dchp as is this one. but apparently the other fields are no
longer greyed out. maybe need to check which ip the router has assigned that
pc and enter along with a submask?

James

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