Another problem upgrading to 19.10

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Wednesday, October 23, 2019 1:32:05 PM CEST Liam Proven wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 09:36, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
> > Now I'm stuck with a semi-working system and the mess below. I'm afraid to
> > break stuff more than it already is, so does anybody have an idea how to
> > proceed from here?
> 
> DISCLAIMER: my 19.04→19.10 upgrade failed badly too, and I had to
> reboot. However it sounds like it got further than yours did. I was
> trying the GNOME version, experimentally as I can't stand GNOME 3.
> 
> Anyway. Virtualbox isn't essential to a running OS. If I were you, I'd
> remove (force-remove if necessary) Virtualbox -- this should leave
> config etc and VMs intact -- try to fix the remainder, and then
> reinstall Vbox afterwards.
> 
> If it's the sticking point, then get rid of it. Then your dpkg etc.
> will probably finish fine.

Seems reasonable, so i got rid of virtualbox, ran 'sudo dpkg --configure -a' 
which came out clean and:

 > If so, I'd:
> * reboot

Now I've got: "symbol 'grub_file_filters' not found", so square one ;)
Now I have a 19.04 live USB stick, but no idea how to proceed from here.

-- 
/Thomas