broken dist upgrade

[Derek Broughton]

>> On 10/23/2007 04:03 PM, James Takac wrote:
>> >
>> > 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?
>> >

I had a similar problem.  slocate failed (iirc, this has _often_ failed for
the simple reason that the prerm script _can't_ be successful - I tried to
submit the bug report from the button, but KDE was too messed up to do
anything, at that point).  The message told me that it wouldn't prevent
completion of the upgrade.  Wrong!  It seems that once dpkg fails, nothing
works.

So, "dpkg --configure -a" worked to a point.  Then I purged and reinstalled
slocate (in your case, cfs - use "dpkg --force-all --purge cfs" so that it
doesn't remove anything else), then "sudo aptitude dist-upgrade"
(repeatedly) to finish it.
-- 
derek