Upgrade to 8.04 interrupted by a kernel panic -- shouldn't the upgrade tool be able to recover?

[Anna EdwARds]

Hey. Good idea. But i am still the smartest person here.

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--- Original Message ---
Date: Sat May 03 15:23:45 PDT 2008
From: Michael Peek 
To: User Mail List-Ubuntu 
Subject: Upgrade to 8.04 interrupted by a kernel panic -- shouldn't the upgrade tool be able to recover?
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Hello ubuntu gurus,

I was in the process of upgrading my wife's laptop to 8.04 when it was 
interrupted by a kernel panic (I think -- I caught the words "critical 
temperature reached" flash on the screen as it went down).

At the time that this happened the upgrade tool had downloaded all of 
the required packages and was in the process of installing them.

I fixed the laptop by giving it a few minutes to cool off while I 
worriedly cursed it under my breath for good measure.

After turning the machine back on, it presented me with a blank brown 
X11 screen and nothing ever came up.

After cntrl-alt-f1, login, sudo dpkg --configure -a, and finally a 
reboot, it appears that everything is back to rights.

If I can make a suggestion, I think that once the upgrade tool has 
downloaded all of the required packages, it should install a temporary 
init script that does this for you just in case this kind of event 
should occur.

Michael

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