2008/10/31 Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 2008/10/31 George MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have been using Ubuntu since 5.04 and have never had a major problem > until > > now. I have upgrade before via CD and via the network and always with > only > > minor issue, if any, until now. I ran the network upgrade as before to go > > from 8.04 to 8.10 and everything went as it had in the past, until the > final > > stage when I was asked to OK the removal of obsolete packages. I thought > > nothing of it as this is normal, but alarm bells stated ringing when I > saw > > Firefox, Evolution, compiz and Xorg being removed, but the process had > > already started. > > > > I then clicked restart at the end and that's when I realised all was not > > well > > This was possibly not wise. For future reference if you have a > situation where the system is in a dodgy state, a restart is probably > not the best course of action at that point. > > > I've tried to reboot several times with the same result and booting into > > recovery mode just leaves me hanging at a terminal prompt. > > > > A logon prompt? If so can you logon okay? > > > Needless to say I will not be upgrading any of my other machines until I > can > > get this fixed. > > Conversely I have upgraded 5 machines and not had this kind of issue. > > > My PC is a Dell Dimension Dual boot with XP on a corporate LAN. > > > > What's the package history on the machine? Have you ever used > automatix or something similar to install packages? What do you have > in /etc/apt/sources.list and any files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ ? > > Is the "ubuntu-desktop" package still installed (assuming you can get > logged in), type this:- > > dpkg -l ubuntu-desktop > > (that's a lower case L). > > Cheers, > Al. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > Hi, Thanks for the advice. I will try again on Monday as this is my work PC. On this PC I have upgraded from 7.04 > 7.10 >8.04 over the network with no problems at all. I did have Automatix way back but removed it long ago. The machine has been very stable till now. I didn't get a logon prompt so will have to think of another approach.
Cheers George
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