aaronp
April 21st, 2010, 01:10 PM
Hi guys,
I came home to my PC (Karmic 9.10) offering me a partial upgrade. It didn't really seem like anything out of the ordinary except for the word 'partial' so I accepted it (stupidly).
It appears it has done some kind of half baked distribution upgrade and mucked around with things like Firefox (which is now Namoroka) and Thunderbird, as well as a handful of other packages.
I noticed in the terminal window when it was doing the upgrade it came across quite a few syntax errors or problems deleting folders etc. which was the first alert to me that something wasn't right.
Anyway, I've now read the sticky on this forum about partial upgrades (i.e. avoid them!) and the fact that they are usually a problem in testing/dev releases, not final releases.
I'm actually running the final Karmic release and not an alpha/beta Lucid version and this is my 'production' system, so I can't afford to lose data. I've got backups but wasn't intending on needing to use them!!
Unfortunately the sticky doesn't have a 'how to fix things if you're stupid enough to accept a partial upgrade without checking what it is first' section.
Is anyone able to help me roll this back?
thanks
Aaron
I came home to my PC (Karmic 9.10) offering me a partial upgrade. It didn't really seem like anything out of the ordinary except for the word 'partial' so I accepted it (stupidly).
It appears it has done some kind of half baked distribution upgrade and mucked around with things like Firefox (which is now Namoroka) and Thunderbird, as well as a handful of other packages.
I noticed in the terminal window when it was doing the upgrade it came across quite a few syntax errors or problems deleting folders etc. which was the first alert to me that something wasn't right.
Anyway, I've now read the sticky on this forum about partial upgrades (i.e. avoid them!) and the fact that they are usually a problem in testing/dev releases, not final releases.
I'm actually running the final Karmic release and not an alpha/beta Lucid version and this is my 'production' system, so I can't afford to lose data. I've got backups but wasn't intending on needing to use them!!
Unfortunately the sticky doesn't have a 'how to fix things if you're stupid enough to accept a partial upgrade without checking what it is first' section.
Is anyone able to help me roll this back?
thanks
Aaron