Greg, -- small update.  I caused this problem by adding a number of sources
to my Synaptic sources.list -- somehow a program called Busybox got
installed in such a way that I couldn't restart the system, or even shut it
down all the way to power-off.  I wound up holding the reboot button on the
PC case until the power went off, then rebooting.  At that point it
progressed from the GRUB screen through the initial Ubuntu splash screen,
then dropped me to a prompt that said something like "job control not
active" and gave me a busybox prompt that I never managed to figure out. --
Since this was a fresh system build, I wound up simply rebuilding the system
from the CD.  My best guess is that I enabled a pathological mix of sources
and tried to install something (don't have the name handy) that needed to
overwrite another packages file by the same name. -- in other words, user
error from start to finish.

Thanks for your attention.

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 6:41 AM, Greg Grossmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => update-manager
>
> --
> unable to complete partial update -- bug report requested by system
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192308
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>
> Status in Source Package "update-manager" in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"
>
> Files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1608 2008-02-08 21:54 apt-autoinst-fixup.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  96043 2008-02-16 00:53 apt.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  29213 2008-02-09 01:52 main.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1375 2008-02-08 23:04 main_pre_req.log
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 248156 2008-02-09 01:52 term.log
> Too many and too big, so I made an archive -- will cheerfully send it
> given a destination.
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  61017 2008-02-16 01:07
> dist-upgrade-Bob-Price.tar.gz
>
> Thanks, Bob.
>

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