A bit of clarification: what happened was that the config of a package (pcmcia-cs I think) caused a hard crash + reboot. Thus, on reboot, I needed to manually invoke dpkg form the command line to finish off the install. At that point it would have been nice to have a message saying something like
"Your upgrade was unexpectedly interrupted (power failure, hardware problem, system crash). Type dpkg ... to resume" I don't recall the exact state of the X11 packages at that point, but I think it was more of a missing/half-configured packages problem than that the actual X config files were broken. (X came up nicely after dpkg had finished.) -- Broken install should provide some guidance https://launchpad.net/bugs/47705 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
