On 17/10/10 17:34, Barry Titterton wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 12:51 +0000, Glen Mehn wrote: >> Please please please file against update-manager. >> >> Rob: you can try this: >> Boot from usb stick or live cd >> Mount your filesystems in their correct places, so that your old / is at >> /mounts/oldroot >> Open a terminal >> Type 'chroot /mounts/oldroot' >> Run 'dpkg --configure -a' >> Run 'grub-install' (shouldn't be necessary, but can't hurt) >> >> Exit the chroot >> Unmount >> Reboot without the cd >> >> Best of luck! >> Glen Mehn >> e: glen.m...@oba.co.uk t: @gmehn skype: glenmehn >> > Glen, > > I finally found the time to try and fix this machine but I could not get > this to work when running from a LTS live CD: when running dpkg > virtually every line in the terminal had "permission denied", then the > process gave up with the message "too many errors". > > Can you please give me exact, "Linux for Idiots" instructions for every > step of the operation as I am obviously not doing something right. > >
I'm guessing you need to run the command as root, so put sudo in front of each of the commands. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
