2008/10/31 George MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have been using Ubuntu since 5.04 and have never had a major problem until > now. I have upgrade before via CD and via the network and always with only > minor issue, if any, until now. I ran the network upgrade as before to go > from 8.04 to 8.10 and everything went as it had in the past, until the final > stage when I was asked to OK the removal of obsolete packages. I thought > nothing of it as this is normal, but alarm bells stated ringing when I saw > Firefox, Evolution, compiz and Xorg being removed, but the process had > already started. > > I then clicked restart at the end and that's when I realised all was not > well
This was possibly not wise. For future reference if you have a situation where the system is in a dodgy state, a restart is probably not the best course of action at that point. > I've tried to reboot several times with the same result and booting into > recovery mode just leaves me hanging at a terminal prompt. > A logon prompt? If so can you logon okay? > Needless to say I will not be upgrading any of my other machines until I can > get this fixed. Conversely I have upgraded 5 machines and not had this kind of issue. > My PC is a Dell Dimension Dual boot with XP on a corporate LAN. > What's the package history on the machine? Have you ever used automatix or something similar to install packages? What do you have in /etc/apt/sources.list and any files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ? Is the "ubuntu-desktop" package still installed (assuming you can get logged in), type this:- dpkg -l ubuntu-desktop (that's a lower case L). Cheers, Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
