broken dist upgrade

[James Takac]

On 10/24/07, John M. Resler <JohnMResler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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> John Michael Resler
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>
> Hi John



Wasn´t bought with ubuntu preinstalled. the 8200 is before they started
shipping with ubuntu

James
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