On 05/05/10 11:54, Alan Pope wrote: > On 5 May 2010 11:43, John Matthews<jake...@sky.com> wrote: > >> What else can I explain. I explained in my first e-mail that I did the final >> upgrade to Lucid from the last release. It didnt finish. >> > It didn't finish in that it crashed out? > Did you use update manager or do-release-upgrade to perform the upgrade? > > I used the update manager. >> I also explained >> that Wine was the reason the upgrade failed. >> > It probably isn't the reason it failed, a symptom of the failure might > have been a broken wine package, sure, but there's probably some other > reason for the upgrade stopping. > > It went to a partial upgrade, then got almost to the very end, and then kept on saying cannot install wine for some reason, click here to continue, which I did. that happened about 3 times, the last time it said wine not installed, upgrade discontinued. The the whole things stopped. When I checked, that was when ti showed Lucid was installed, but it hadnt changed the Grub to Lucid.
<snip> > This is normal, once upgraded properly these can be cleaned up. > > Can you get to a recovery mode kernel? In the grub menu choose the > second kernel down, which should bring you to a menu in which you can > choose to open a root prompt. > > Cheers, > Al. > > I can get to a recovery mode kernal yes. What should I do when I get to one? John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
