steve c
May 15th, 2009, 10:15 PM
I tried to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04 and between 10 and 25 packages failed to install. Eventually the installer gave up and tried to run dpkg --configure -a but that fails, eventually with "too many errors."
The first error I got was
Preparing to replace findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3 (using .../findutils_4.4.0-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.
Then it goes on to say that findutils failed and I get a number of other messages in that vein for things like readline, util-linux, cpio, and others.
At this point, I have no network connection, I can't log in except at a console. I don't have ssh access.
I'd really rather not copy my home directory off and then reinstall. Is there anything I can do to recover?
I'm happy to provide more information, but I have no idea what is relevant at this point.
The first error I got was
Preparing to replace findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3 (using .../findutils_4.4.0-2ubuntu4_amd64.deb) ...
install-info: No dir file specified; try --help for more information.
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: ... it looks like that went OK.
Then it goes on to say that findutils failed and I get a number of other messages in that vein for things like readline, util-linux, cpio, and others.
At this point, I have no network connection, I can't log in except at a console. I don't have ssh access.
I'd really rather not copy my home directory off and then reinstall. Is there anything I can do to recover?
I'm happy to provide more information, but I have no idea what is relevant at this point.