Randy Schilling
May 18th, 2010, 08:14 PM
I tried to upgrade from ubuntu 8.04 to 10.04. The process terminated with the following message: "The upgrade is now aborted. Your system could be in an unstable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a)".
Then I tried to boot to my ubuntu disk. The grub boot loader showed several options, several version 10.04 kernels (no 8.04 kernels) and corresponding recovery options. I tried a normal boot and it locked up in the first screen following the boot
loader. I did not try a recovery option. Instead, I selected the
Windows option from the grub menu; this so I could could get this message off ASAP.
I am in dire need of help. I am a linux novice but I was doing very well learning about ubuntu and linux from the book by Kier Thomas. I worked through almost all 700 or so pages and now I wish I had never tried this upgrade.
I am running a pentium D cpu at 3ghz and 5gb ram. It has two 150gb hard disks, one I call my ubuntu side, the other my windows side.
I decided to learn linux at my son's behest. After a virus infection and costly recovery, my windows side has not been the same. It is disgustingly slow and it continues to slow down. All I did was click on a picture of Rihanna and kaboom, infected!
Back to the upgrade. The upgrade was interrupted by messages of the form "Sorry, the packgage "x" failed to instal or upgrade" where
x=gwibber2.30.0.1-0ubuntu1,
libimobiledevice00.9.7-1ubuntu1,
evolution-couchdb0.4.5-0ubuntu1,
rtkit,
libgpod40.7.93-0ubuntu1,
python-desktopcouch-records0.6.4-0ubuntu3,
libgpod-common0.7.93-0ubuntu1,
rhythmbox-plugins0.12.8-0ubuntu4,
couchdb-bin,
python-speechd0.6.8~unofficial~N2-0ubuntu3,
nVidia-gix-new,
python-desktopcouch0.6.4-ubuntu3,
gvfs-backends1.6.0+git20100414-0ubuntu1,
gwibber-service2.30.0.1-0ubuntu1,
rhythymbox-ubuntuone-music-store0.0.9-0ubuntu1,
gnome-orca-2.30.0ubuntu3,
desktopcouch0.6.4-0ubuntu3,
speech-dispatcher.
What do I do from here? Install 8.04 or 9.04 or 10.04 from scratch?
Can I get back up and running with ubuntu without loosing the important documents on my ubuntu side?
Any help will be most graciously appreciated.
Regards - Randy (rchilling@comcast.net)
Then I tried to boot to my ubuntu disk. The grub boot loader showed several options, several version 10.04 kernels (no 8.04 kernels) and corresponding recovery options. I tried a normal boot and it locked up in the first screen following the boot
loader. I did not try a recovery option. Instead, I selected the
Windows option from the grub menu; this so I could could get this message off ASAP.
I am in dire need of help. I am a linux novice but I was doing very well learning about ubuntu and linux from the book by Kier Thomas. I worked through almost all 700 or so pages and now I wish I had never tried this upgrade.
I am running a pentium D cpu at 3ghz and 5gb ram. It has two 150gb hard disks, one I call my ubuntu side, the other my windows side.
I decided to learn linux at my son's behest. After a virus infection and costly recovery, my windows side has not been the same. It is disgustingly slow and it continues to slow down. All I did was click on a picture of Rihanna and kaboom, infected!
Back to the upgrade. The upgrade was interrupted by messages of the form "Sorry, the packgage "x" failed to instal or upgrade" where
x=gwibber2.30.0.1-0ubuntu1,
libimobiledevice00.9.7-1ubuntu1,
evolution-couchdb0.4.5-0ubuntu1,
rtkit,
libgpod40.7.93-0ubuntu1,
python-desktopcouch-records0.6.4-0ubuntu3,
libgpod-common0.7.93-0ubuntu1,
rhythmbox-plugins0.12.8-0ubuntu4,
couchdb-bin,
python-speechd0.6.8~unofficial~N2-0ubuntu3,
nVidia-gix-new,
python-desktopcouch0.6.4-ubuntu3,
gvfs-backends1.6.0+git20100414-0ubuntu1,
gwibber-service2.30.0.1-0ubuntu1,
rhythymbox-ubuntuone-music-store0.0.9-0ubuntu1,
gnome-orca-2.30.0ubuntu3,
desktopcouch0.6.4-0ubuntu3,
speech-dispatcher.
What do I do from here? Install 8.04 or 9.04 or 10.04 from scratch?
Can I get back up and running with ubuntu without loosing the important documents on my ubuntu side?
Any help will be most graciously appreciated.
Regards - Randy (rchilling@comcast.net)