Help me. How to restore my ubuntu 6.06 because of faling to upgrade to 8.04

[zhihang wang]

Thank you for your help, Philip.
 It still doesn't work.
The error message is
  xfonts-scalable(1.0.0-6)
usage error:unrecognized option
usage: update-fonts-dir DIRECTORY...
..

xfonts-scalable
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returened an error code(1)

The same error message as before.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 11:27 AM, philip jin <philipjin08 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Zhihang:
>
> Try the following command to see whether this can fix the issue.
> # aptitude install xfonts-utils
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 10:34 AM, zhihang wang <zhihang.wang at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> When I upgrade my 6.06 to 8.04 directly by update from the internet, an
>> error occure. The error message is:
>>  Unpacking xfonts-scalable (from .../xfonts-scalable_1%3a1.0.0-6_all.deb)
>> ...
>> Setting up xfonts-scalable (1:1.0.0-6) ...
>> usage error: unrecognized option
>> Usage: update-fonts-dir DIRECTORY ...
>> update-fonts-dir { -h | --help }
>> This program is a wrapper for mkfontdir(1x) that is primarily useful to
>> Debian
>> package maintainer scripts. See update-fonts-dir for more information.
>> Options:
>> -h, --help display this usage message and exitdpkg: error processing
>> xfonts-scalable (--configure):
>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>> xfonts-scalable
>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>>
>> Now I can't enter gnome. How to restore my 6.06 or continue to upgrade?
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>> zhihang wang
>>
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zhihang wang
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