Partial upgrade - Both 12.04 & 12.10?

[Albury_Boy]

Hi all,

I seem to have had a strange partial upgrade. When logging into my laptop, the login screen shows 12.10. The 'About this computer' shows 12.04 LTS.

When running sudo apt-get update I see that it is using 'quantal' repositories mostly, with a couple of 'precise' ones thrown in. A heap of them are now broken.

My linux kernel is 3.5.0-5-generic

I'd recently upgraded my distro from 11.10 to 12.04 (on purpose). After the usual problems with X server settings, everything seemed to have settled down.

A couple of reboots later, I ran sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade, went to get a coffee, and when I got back, I found this Frankenstein machine.

<<- HE GETS TO THE QUESTION HERE ->>

So... I was wondering if I could force the system into totally 'believing' that it is 12.04??

My repositories are all precise or lower. There are no quantal sources in the list.

Any suggestions?

[sectio aurea]

This is still a relevant question, as the Quantal beta was just released.

One method, which worked for me and my extremely crufty upgrade partition when I experienced the OP's problem, is to try forcing aptitude to fix the problem:


Boot to safe mode, then run:


sudo aptitude -f

In aptitude, type "u" to update, then "g" to install updates.

Reboot when it won't take any more updates.

Repeat steps 1-4 until you can get to your graphical login screen on a 3.5.0 kernel.