update from 8.04 to 8.1 failed

[jonbjarna]

An error occured during the update, when I booted up again I got this:
Starting up..
Aperture pointing to e820 RAM. Ignoring
Your BIOS doesn't leave a aperture memory hole
Please enable the IOMMU option in the Bios setup
This costs you 64 MB of RAM
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

I'm trying to go back up 8.04 and using this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DowngradeHowto

I booted from CD and moutned my disks, but when I do apt-get update.
I get this:

on-is
Ign http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid/restricted Translation-is
Ign http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid/universe Translation-is
Ign http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid/multiverse Translation-is
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates Release.gpg
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/main Translation-is
Ign http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/restricted Translation-is
Ign http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/universe Translation-is
Ign http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/multiverse Translation-is
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security Release.gpg
Ign http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/main Translation-is
Ign http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/restricted Translation-is
Ign http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/universe Translation-is
Ign http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/multiverse Translation-is
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid Release
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates Release
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security Release
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid/main Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid/restricted Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid/main Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid/restricted Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid/universe Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid/universe Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid/multiverse Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/main Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/restricted Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/main Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/restricted Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/universe Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/universe Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-updates/multiverse Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/main Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/restricted Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/main Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/restricted Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/universe Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/universe Sources
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/multiverse Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.lhi.is intrepid-security/multiverse Sources
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
and when I do dpkg --configure -a I get the log attached ending with:
/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Locale/gettext/gettext.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr
dpkg: error processing mime-support (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 127
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
dpkg: ../../src/packages.c:252: process_queue: Assertion `!queuelen' failed.

Can anyone help ?

[cdtech]

Try running a force install:

sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt-get -f install

[jonbjarna]

I get the same errors.


Try running a force install:

sudo dpkg --configure -a && sudo apt-get -f install

[jonbjarna]

I found this in an year old thread:

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo dpkg --configure -a
I dont know what autoremove will do, is it safe to use ?

[jonbjarna]

Oh, I get the same.. error: dpkg --configure -a
Does anyone know what I can do to fix this ?


I found this in an year old thread:

sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo dpkg --configure -a
I dont know what autoremove will do, is it safe to use ?