grey1beard
January 6th, 2012, 01:39 PM
During an upgrade from 10.04LTS to 10.10, my toshiba satellite laptop suffered a power supply loss(running on mains adaptor ) at some time during the installation of the downloaded files.
Restoring power showed the 10.04 splash screen, then got as far as showing an old desktop folder in place, then a pop-up that repeatedly flashed into view for about 0.1 second at a time that says
The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet"
Delete Don't delete
The tracker mouse icon is non-operative so I tried the keyboard strokes but that doesn't work during the brief appearance of the pop-up.
I've rebooted and tried grub menu -
"10.04.3 LTS, 2.6.32-12-rtai recovery mode" gets to a line
[ 1.850837]EXTS-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ...
Done.
Done.
Begin: running /scripts/init-bottom ...
Done.
[ 5.267064] Adding 1253028k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extends:1 across:12538028k
_
with a flashing cursor at the bottom, then no change over >10 minutes.
"10.04.3 LTS, 2.6.32-37-rtai recovery mode" gets to a line
[ 1.862216]EXTS-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ...
Done.
Done.
Begin: running /scripts/init-bottom ...
Done.
_
All other recovery kernels offered get to the same end line, with the exception of 10.04 LTS 2.6.24-16 rtai which quotes a variety of problems, finishing with
BusyBox v1.13.3(Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.
(initramfs) _
This time with an active flashing cursor, and this led me via 'help' to the list.
I tried a sudo apt-get clean command as suggested on a forum thread, but it didn't find the sudo command.
Is there anything else I can try before I go for a completely new clean installation ?
Only a few recent folders will be lost, nothing disastrous.
John
Restoring power showed the 10.04 splash screen, then got as far as showing an old desktop folder in place, then a pop-up that repeatedly flashed into view for about 0.1 second at a time that says
The panel encountered a problem while loading "OAFID:GNOME_FastUserSwitchApplet"
Delete Don't delete
The tracker mouse icon is non-operative so I tried the keyboard strokes but that doesn't work during the brief appearance of the pop-up.
I've rebooted and tried grub menu -
"10.04.3 LTS, 2.6.32-12-rtai recovery mode" gets to a line
[ 1.850837]EXTS-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ...
Done.
Done.
Begin: running /scripts/init-bottom ...
Done.
[ 5.267064] Adding 1253028k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extends:1 across:12538028k
_
with a flashing cursor at the bottom, then no change over >10 minutes.
"10.04.3 LTS, 2.6.32-37-rtai recovery mode" gets to a line
[ 1.862216]EXTS-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ...
Done.
Done.
Begin: running /scripts/init-bottom ...
Done.
_
All other recovery kernels offered get to the same end line, with the exception of 10.04 LTS 2.6.24-16 rtai which quotes a variety of problems, finishing with
BusyBox v1.13.3(Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built in commands.
(initramfs) _
This time with an active flashing cursor, and this led me via 'help' to the list.
I tried a sudo apt-get clean command as suggested on a forum thread, but it didn't find the sudo command.
Is there anything else I can try before I go for a completely new clean installation ?
Only a few recent folders will be lost, nothing disastrous.
John