Fred_Zyzoff
February 15th, 2016, 05:10 AM
Perhaps "crash" is the wrong word, but here's the situation. I've been running Kubuntu 14.04 LTS on top of a Ubuntu server install (The server install was needed as the drive with the OS is Raided). Worked pretty well.
So I get a notice from Muon Update Manager that various files should be upgraded. Normally I would do that by a terminal apt-get, but for whatever reason this time I used Muon. I had previously set the notice to let me know when new versions were available. So when starting the apps upgrade, it also starts to upgrade to v. 15.10.
That seemd to be going along ok, but about 20 minutes into it, my screen goes blank and will not reappear. I wasn't too worried at that point, so I went away for 2 hours. When I came back there was no obvious activity and the screen wouldn't come back. So I rebooted.
The computer reboots but I get nothing but a terminal screen. No desktop at all. It's pretty obvious that the upgrade didn't finish. Trying apt-get update leads to a bunch of errors: "Some index files failed to download" or and other messages. And apt-get dist-upgrade tells me I have unmet dependencies.
I'm afraid to reinstall with the 14.04 CD.
So as it stands the box won't boot up in a workable desktop, the upgrade went haywire. I really need some help to at least get me back to the 14.04 level - even if I can't get to 15.10.
thanks
So I get a notice from Muon Update Manager that various files should be upgraded. Normally I would do that by a terminal apt-get, but for whatever reason this time I used Muon. I had previously set the notice to let me know when new versions were available. So when starting the apps upgrade, it also starts to upgrade to v. 15.10.
That seemd to be going along ok, but about 20 minutes into it, my screen goes blank and will not reappear. I wasn't too worried at that point, so I went away for 2 hours. When I came back there was no obvious activity and the screen wouldn't come back. So I rebooted.
The computer reboots but I get nothing but a terminal screen. No desktop at all. It's pretty obvious that the upgrade didn't finish. Trying apt-get update leads to a bunch of errors: "Some index files failed to download" or and other messages. And apt-get dist-upgrade tells me I have unmet dependencies.
I'm afraid to reinstall with the 14.04 CD.
So as it stands the box won't boot up in a workable desktop, the upgrade went haywire. I really need some help to at least get me back to the 14.04 level - even if I can't get to 15.10.
thanks