broken dist upgrade

[John M. Resler]

Are you using a Dell that came pre-installed with Ubuntu? If so, during 
the Grub boot hit enter and there's an option to recover the factory 
defaults from there.
It saved me quite a bit of work last night. FWIW.

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
>
>   


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