interrupted update process help needed

Steve Cook yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 30 16:15:56 UTC 2008


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Frederik De Richter wrote:
> Ubuntu friends, I need some help.
> 
> I did on my 8.04 box <Alt> F2 sudo update-manager -d and the update towards
> 8.10 started.
> 
> During the update , I ssh'ed to my server machine and did also the update
> command.
> 
> The server installation went flawless, but after 48 minutes, just before the
> 'cleanup ' phaze, the other box froze and I had to reboot.
> 
> I know you should not interrupt the update process, but I could not do
> otherwise.
> 
> What is now the best way to rescue things?  any suggestions?
> 
> erik
> 
> 
If the system reboots just run

apt-get update

apt-get dist-upgrade

You may have to do this a couple of times.  I had to do this on one
machine and everything appears to be OK.

Good Luck!

SteVe
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