tick1492
April 28th, 2009, 02:16 PM
Hello to all.
So yesterday, I attempted to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 and have ruined my Ubuntu install. I'll walk you through what happened below...
First some background: Prior to my upgrade, I had some issues with synaptic. I had 'corrupted' packages that I didn't know how to fix so I just left them there. I think this was do to a hardware issue, certain inode sections on my harddrive were constantly corrupt and corresponded to the synaptic packages. However, in my 8.10 installation I got it to a point where synaptic would install something new but would crash in the process. This was satisfactory for a while so I left it this way. Weird.
So with that in mind, I figured that maybe I can install 9.04 and just have synaptic 'crash'. That was stupid. So I went through the process and of course, synaptic crashed fatally halfway through.
In the process of that, I lost xserver and now have no graphical interface. I ran dpkg --purge xserver-xorg to remove the bad xserver package. I also ran fsck and clean to attempt to fix my drive.
So my first issue is. How can I get xserver back? I tried running
sudo apt-get update
sudo appt-get --reinstall install xserver-xorg
But I can't connect to the repositories, I get multiple errors saying:
'could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
So now you may be thinking, why not changes the /etc/apt/sources.list and try downloading from a different source? I tried that and I still can't connect to anything to download xserver.
So I need help badly! Let me know of any other info I can post. Thanks to all who help.
So yesterday, I attempted to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 and have ruined my Ubuntu install. I'll walk you through what happened below...
First some background: Prior to my upgrade, I had some issues with synaptic. I had 'corrupted' packages that I didn't know how to fix so I just left them there. I think this was do to a hardware issue, certain inode sections on my harddrive were constantly corrupt and corresponded to the synaptic packages. However, in my 8.10 installation I got it to a point where synaptic would install something new but would crash in the process. This was satisfactory for a while so I left it this way. Weird.
So with that in mind, I figured that maybe I can install 9.04 and just have synaptic 'crash'. That was stupid. So I went through the process and of course, synaptic crashed fatally halfway through.
In the process of that, I lost xserver and now have no graphical interface. I ran dpkg --purge xserver-xorg to remove the bad xserver package. I also ran fsck and clean to attempt to fix my drive.
So my first issue is. How can I get xserver back? I tried running
sudo apt-get update
sudo appt-get --reinstall install xserver-xorg
But I can't connect to the repositories, I get multiple errors saying:
'could not resolve 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
So now you may be thinking, why not changes the /etc/apt/sources.list and try downloading from a different source? I tried that and I still can't connect to anything to download xserver.
So I need help badly! Let me know of any other info I can post. Thanks to all who help.