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

[zhihang wang]

I have tried these comands. But it still doesn't work.
I try to intall another xserver, such as kubuntu, But it also failed.
Now I can enter into the gnome, but the font is error and only many
square-box , not the correct fonts, display.

when I close the xserver by Ctrl-Alt+F4, some solid squre-box also occure in
the command line model.
I guess the font is error. But I don't know how to correct them.

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 12:47 AM, Mumia W. <
paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net<paduille.4062.mumia.w%2Bnospam at earthlink.net>
> wrote:

> On 08/13/2008 12:51 AM, zhihang wang wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Mumia W. <
> > paduille.4062.mumia.w+nospam at earthlink.net<paduille.4062.mumia.w%2Bnospam at earthlink.net>
> <paduille.4062.mumia.w%2Bnospam at earthlink.net<paduille.4062.mumia.w%252Bnospam at earthlink.net>
> >
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> On 08/12/2008 09:34 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 ...
> >>> [...]
> >>> Now I can't enter gnome. How to restore my 6.06 or continue to upgrade?
> >>>
> >> I can't answer your question, but I can suggest that you install another
> >> window manager until you get Gnome sorted out:
> >>
> >> sudo apt-get install blackbox bbkeys
> >>
> >> When you see the GDM login screen, select "Sessions" and choose Blackbox
> >> when you wish to use the Blackbox window manager. Read the manual pages
> >> for blackbox and bbkeys if you're not already familiar with them:
> >>
> >> man blackbox
> >> man bbkeys
> >>
>
> > when I type your comand, it successfully download the need package.
> > But an error occure. the erro message is:
> >
> > Preconfiguring packages....
> > (Reading database... kpkg:error processing lib64ncurses5-dev (--remove):
> > files list file for package 'xfonts-scalable' contains empty filename
> > Errors were encooutered while processing:
> > lib64ncurses5-dev
> > Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1).
> >
>
> Please bottom-post on this mail-list.
>
> I can't see what lib64ncurses5-dev has to do with xfonts-scalable.
> Perhaps the package cache files have been corrupted; do this:
>
> sudo -i
> cd /var/cache/apt/
> rm pkgcache.bin srcpkgcache.bin
> rm archives/xfonts-scalable_1.0.0-6_all.deb
> rm archives/lib64ncurses5-dev_5.6+20071124-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
> apt-get --reinstall install lib64ncurses5-dev xfonts-scalable
> exit
>
>
>
> The above commands should clear out the old cache files, delete possibly
> untrustworthy .debs and reinstall the packages that seem to be holding
> up installations and upgrades. Note, if there are any other
> lib64ncurses5-dev in /var/cache/apt/archives, please delete them; the
> same goes for xfonts-scalable.
>
>
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Best Regards
zhihang wang
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