tipiglen
December 15th, 2009, 05:52 PM
Ok! I left the laptop busy upgrading from 9.04 to Karmic, and when I returned it was dead. I tried booting and it eventually stalled afterr "checking battery state"
CtrlAltF2 got me a terminal and I went root. I was advised to run apt-config, and did so. endless problems with parse errors in /var/lib/dpkg/updates.....
Anyway, I've finally got booted in and the touchpad doesn't work. I seem to be on the old kernel, and when I use CLI for update-manager it crashes saying I've got a broken package... synaptics finds and offers to fix package, but 'apply' leads to a fatal error....
meanwhile, I'm writing this in a wubi install, which seems to work fine.
Tempted to simply put a hard link to my old /home directory and re-set my bindings...I might also download a new iso and do a clean install (after saving old /home to external drive)
Very frustrating as karmic works great on my wee asus.
Any ideas before I blow this one away?
Grrrrrr!
CtrlAltF2 got me a terminal and I went root. I was advised to run apt-config, and did so. endless problems with parse errors in /var/lib/dpkg/updates.....
Anyway, I've finally got booted in and the touchpad doesn't work. I seem to be on the old kernel, and when I use CLI for update-manager it crashes saying I've got a broken package... synaptics finds and offers to fix package, but 'apply' leads to a fatal error....
meanwhile, I'm writing this in a wubi install, which seems to work fine.
Tempted to simply put a hard link to my old /home directory and re-set my bindings...I might also download a new iso and do a clean install (after saving old /home to external drive)
Very frustrating as karmic works great on my wee asus.
Any ideas before I blow this one away?
Grrrrrr!