broken dist upgrade

[R Kimber]

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 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ 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
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Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/