Upgrade stalled, what are my options to complete?

[GROwen]

Hi all,

Looking for a bit of advice before I jump into doing a clean install.

I was upgrading to 10.10 (from 10.04) but my PC stalled when the installer reached updating of Xorg files. From memory it was around 59% complete.

After restart the machine would only boots to command line and I can't manage to boot into recovery mode. I've tried hitting 'left shift' to get into recovery options without any luck, then I tried 'esc' with the same result.

After logging in to command line I'm told there are no upgrades or security updates available.

What options should I be looking at to try and rectify this before jumping into doing a new install over the OS partition from the LiveCD?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[whoop]

Hi all,

Looking for a bit of advice before I jump into doing a clean install.

I was upgrading to 10.10 (from 10.04) but my PC stalled when the installer reached updating of Xorg files. From memory it was around 59% complete.

After restart the machine would only boots to command line and I can't manage to boot into recovery mode. I've tried hitting 'left shift' to get into recovery options without any luck, then I tried 'esc' with the same result.

After logging in to command line I'm told there are no upgrades or security updates available.

What options should I be looking at to try and rectify this before jumping into doing a new install over the OS partition from the LiveCD?

Thanks in advance for any help.

If you have your data backed up, there are various things you could try...
If you have network connectivity, you could try:


sudo bash
aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade

and see what happens...

[night_fox]

That is a good idea. If you want to try more stuff while on the internet, run the LiveCD, then go to terminal


sudo mkdir /media/disk
sudo mount -t <file system> /dev/sd<your root> /media/disk
sudo mount -t proc /proc /media/disk/proc
sudo mount /dev /media/disk/dev -o bind
sudo chroot /media/disk

now run commands as if you were in that system.

[GROwen]

Thanks guys, I'll give this suggestion below a go. My only concern might be about data, I've got my OS on a separate partition to music and var, will running those commands delete those partitions as well?


sudo bash
aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade

[whoop]

Thanks guys, I'll give this suggestion below a go. My only concern might be about data, I've got my OS on a separate partition to music and var, will running those commands delete those partitions as well?

Those commands should not delete anything. The should only overwrite existing packages with newer versions of those packages...