<div>On 10/24/07, R Kimber <<a href="mailto:rkimber@ntlworld.com">rkimber@ntlworld.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:31:12 -0700 NoOp wrote: > On 10/23/2007 04:03 PM, James Takac wrote: > > Hi Guys > > > > I think my distribution upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 may have gone > > awry. During the upgrade it had frozen during the installing (after > > updating software channels) and was stuck there for over 8 hours. > > No cancel button of course so I had to kill the process. When > > trying to restart I get a list of updates for 7.10 but am then told > > to sudo dpkg --configure -a to fix things. However this to hangs > > with "setting up cfs (1.4.1-18)" and never gets any further. Is it > > possible to fix this or am I likely better off downloading the > > install disk and going from there? > > > > James > > > > Sounds very much like the problem that I had with one of my systems. > For some reason /etc/apt/sources.list did not get updated to include: > > deb <a href="http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/">http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/</a> gutsy main restricted universe > multiverse > > As a result I think that critical pieces weren't properly installed > during the upgrade & then when you reboot they can't be found by the > system. > > # apt-get update > # apt-get upgrade > # apt-get dist-upgrade > # apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop > > seemed to have fixed it for me. Is there any common thread in these problems? What hardware do people have? I had similar problems but couldn't reboot, and ended up re-installing on my Asus M2N-E amd64 x2 4200 - Richard -- Richard Kimber <a href="http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/">http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/</a> Hi Richard</blockquote><div> Well, currently affected system of mine is a dell inspiron 8200. I have 2 other pcś I hope things will go more smoothly on later James </div> </div>