Can't upgrade to Jaunty, half upgrade has hobbled computer.

[Praveen Venkatachari]

try "dpkg-reconfigure -a". But this would reconfigure all packages. If 
you know the specific packages, use dpkg-reconfigure with them instead.

Dave M G wrote:
> Ubuntu users,
> 
> I filed a bug report about this, but it is seeing no action, and I do 
> need my computer running again as soon as possible.
> 
> 
> I tried to use the update manager to upgrade from 8.10 to Jaunty 9.04 
> final release version (on April 27), and it did a partial upgrade and 
> aborted without much warning. It left my computer in an unstable state, 
> where applications, like Gnome applets, were crashing.
> 
> I rebooted, and Compiz won't load, and it won't read data CDs, and 
> Nautilus won't run.
> 
> I tried running the upgrade again, and got this error:
> 
> Can't install 'ubuntu-desktop'
> It was impossible to install a required package. Please report this as a 
> bug.
> 
> When I close that window, it gives me a window to install only one 
> package, ubuntu-desktop. So I press the "Start upgrade..." button, and 
> get this error:
> 
> The upgrade is now aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A 
> recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).
> Please report this bug against the 'update-manager' package and include 
> the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ in the bug report.
> installArchives() failed
> 
> After that, I press the "close" button on the error message, and the 
> upgrade manager quits.
> 
> Here is the output of "dpkg --configure -a":
> 
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ubuntu-desktop:
>  ubuntu-desktop depends on checkbox-gtk; however:
>   Package checkbox-gtk is not installed.
>  ubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-applets; however:
>   Package gnome-applets is not installed.
>  ubuntu-desktop depends on gnome-session-canberra; however:
>   Package gnome-session-canberra is not installed.
>  ubuntu-desktop depends on gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio; however:
>   Package gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio is not installed.
>  ubuntu-desktop depends on nautilus; however:
>   Package nautilus is not installed.
>  ubuntu-desktop depends on notify-osd; however:
>   Package notify-osd is not installed.
>  ubuntu-desktop depends on pulseaudio; however:
>   Package pulseaudio is not installed.
>  ubuntu-desktop depends on pulseaudio-esound-compat; however:
>   Package pulseaudio-esound-compat is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing ubuntu-desktop (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  ubuntu-desktop
> 
> I tried installing some dependancies with Synaptic, but they all in turn 
> reported other dependency problems.
> 
> The bug report is here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/+bug/367883
> 
> My computer is now in an unuseable state, so I hope someone can help me 
> resolve this soon.
> 
> Thanks for any help.
>