hufemj
July 12th, 2012, 02:53 AM
I had an upgrade failure from 11.10 to 12.04. The system comes up with a login screen. The splash screen says 11.10. When I try to login, it looks like it accepts my password and then immediately logs me out.
I tried booting from a LiveCD because another thread indicated there would be a repair upgrade command, but I don't see that. It tells me 12.04 is already installed.
I ran the command suggested in another thread:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
after logging on to a recovery session and it tells me,
"dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/status' near line 21798 package 'xmind' : blank line in value of field 'Description'"
But, I don't know what to do about it. Edit it with vi and delete the blank line?
I tried booting from a LiveCD because another thread indicated there would be a repair upgrade command, but I don't see that. It tells me 12.04 is already installed.
I ran the command suggested in another thread:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
after logging on to a recovery session and it tells me,
"dpkg: error: parsing file '/var/lib/status' near line 21798 package 'xmind' : blank line in value of field 'Description'"
But, I don't know what to do about it. Edit it with vi and delete the blank line?