dylan35
January 20th, 2015, 06:18 AM
This may or may not be the right forum but I don't think there would be any active ones for my OS (Kali Linux) and I feel this is a more general question as it could probably happen on any system, I was SU (root) in the terminal on a normal privileges account as I cannot sudo, it would tell me the account is not in the sudoers file so I would just su, do admin level commands and exit su, but this time something went horribly wrong. I went into su and executed:
aptitude update
And
aptitude install libreoffice
Normally these commands would simply update whatever it was updating and install libre office, but this time I kinda let the command run and didn't pay much attention, mid way through I noticed a lot of "removed x" where x would be a range of my programs, and majority of them were system-level programs that of course when removed broke my system, it eventually got to the point of asking to remove the Kernel and gave a warning it would totally break the OS if done, so in panic i denied removing the kernel, closed the terminal and as expected couldn't launch any programs at all, USB's, the CD drive and networking were now also broken, I rebooted to see if that would fix it and now the GUI side of my OS is broken and unbootable, commands such as fdisk no longer worked and so I rebooted into recovery mode, fdisk now worked but I realised my USB ports no longer properly detected any USB or my Samsung when plugged in. I am trying to make a Live USB of Linux Mint on another partially broken laptop (Windows 7 with no drivers) and seeing if it will boot into that from the BIOS on my Linux Laptop. Has anyone encountered this before and if so, is my laptop totally bricked and how can I fix this.
aptitude update
And
aptitude install libreoffice
Normally these commands would simply update whatever it was updating and install libre office, but this time I kinda let the command run and didn't pay much attention, mid way through I noticed a lot of "removed x" where x would be a range of my programs, and majority of them were system-level programs that of course when removed broke my system, it eventually got to the point of asking to remove the Kernel and gave a warning it would totally break the OS if done, so in panic i denied removing the kernel, closed the terminal and as expected couldn't launch any programs at all, USB's, the CD drive and networking were now also broken, I rebooted to see if that would fix it and now the GUI side of my OS is broken and unbootable, commands such as fdisk no longer worked and so I rebooted into recovery mode, fdisk now worked but I realised my USB ports no longer properly detected any USB or my Samsung when plugged in. I am trying to make a Live USB of Linux Mint on another partially broken laptop (Windows 7 with no drivers) and seeing if it will boot into that from the BIOS on my Linux Laptop. Has anyone encountered this before and if so, is my laptop totally bricked and how can I fix this.