aptdaemon error

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

(2014/10/06 2:02), Liam Proven wrote:
> On 5 October 2014 18:03, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
>> I tried that, but it did not work.
> Which bit did not work?
>
> You weren't able to rename the file?
> You *were* able to rename the file, but it didn't help?
The latter one.
>> FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
>> '/var/lib/dpkg/status'
> OK, so it needs one. That suggests that it's damaged. I would do:
>
> cd /var/lib/dpkg
> sudo cp status-old status
>
Sorry for not being clear enough in my descriptions.

I tried that. At first I got the same error:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'sudo dpkg --configure 
-a' to correct the problem.

Then I tried
'sudo dpkg --configure -a'
again. This time "something" happend.
After that I tried those "update" and "upgrade" things. They seemed to 
work too.

To be sure, I went through ALL the sudo things you recommended one by 
one. This time there were no errors.
That red icon at the top of the screen is also gone, Software-Center and 
Package Manger do load.
Much better!
However, the screen is and remains grey, does NOT respond to right 
clicking and
Setting -> Display -> also does not respond.
Since this is NOT the way it is supposed to be, there still must be 
something wrong.
(I did not try anything else yet, since just sneezing in the vicinity of 
the computer seems to send it over the edge ...)

Should I open a new thread for that?