Failed dist-upgrade

[John Pierce]

Greetings all!

Okay, I have tried to dist-upgrade two units now and both have failed.
 I opened the update manager and chose to dist-upgrade on a HP laptop
and custom built desktop.  Both units were running kubuntu 9.04 and
were flawless as far as functionality is concerned.  In both cases the
dist-upgrade process failed at 63% with the error that "kdesudo
process died unexpectedly".  I launched a terminal and ran the
following command on each "sudo dpkg --configure -a" and went through
the rest of the configuration.  However, in both cases the process
finished and when I launch webmin on either machine they are still
listed as running kubuntu 9.04 rather than the expected kubuntu 9.10.
In both cases grub2 was not installed and I was left with a functional
grub-legacy.  In the case of the desktop machine the mysql server
failed to launch because the my.cnf file was trashed.

I am not sure what happened, but I would surely think that when they
offer the option to dist-upgrade on pretty standard equipment it would
not fail because the kdesudo command had an issue.

Is there a way to insure that all of the necessary upgrades took
place?  That the system is in fact running kubuntu 9.10? A way to roll
back possibly to start again?

-- 
John
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