broken dist upgrade

[James Takac]

On 10/24/07, R Kimber <rkimber at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:31:12 -0700
> 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.
>
> Is there any common thread in these problems?  What hardware do people
> have?
>
> I had similar problems but couldn't reboot, and ended up re-installing
> on my Asus M2N-E amd64 x2 4200
>
> - Richard
> --
> Richard Kimber
> http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
>
> Hi Richard



Well, currently affected system of mine is a dell inspiron 8200. I have 2
other pcś I hope things will go more smoothly on later

James
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