Ubuntu upgrade gone bad

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 18:11 +0000, cavaughan wrote:
> Ok, I got into the grub boot loader and am booting into a previous kernel. 
> Hm. I didn't even think it was getting to Grub... Maybe this'll work.

Great, if you can get in, check /etc/apt/sources.list, and also the
content of /etc/apt - do you see the backups of the hardy version of the
files? 

Try to run "sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude--simulate
full-upgrade". Does the output look ok?