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

[zhihang wang]

the same error occure when I following your directions.

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:19 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 08/12/2008 07:34 PM, zhihang wang 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?
> >
>
> This may help:
>
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/40321
> <quote>
>  marcobra  said on 2008-08-06:
>
> Try the same as here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/2591
>
> Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal
> and type:
>
> sudo -i
>
> give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you
> type it, then press enter.
>
> Then type a command similar to this echo -en '\n' | sudo tee -a
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/gxine.list
> substitute the path and the .list file
>
> For example:
> echo -en '\n' | sudo tee -a /var/lib/dpkg/info/thunar.list
> </quote>
>
> So in your case:
>
> sudo -i
> echo -en '\n' | sudo tee -a /var/lib/dpkg/info/xfonts-scalable.list
>
> and then
>
> apt-get install --reinstall xfonts-scalable
>
>
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Best Regards
zhihang wang
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