coolcatco888
July 17th, 2018, 01:44 AM
Hi All,
My initial upgrade seemed to fail when during the upgrade the screen turned black and never recovered after 20mins. I rebooted and then after a painful process of trial and error I was finally able to execute this command to update the distro:
apt-get dist-upgrade
(I was using this guide as reference: how-to-repair-ubuntu-installation-after-interrupted-dist-upgrade-without-losing (https://askubuntu.com/questions/748289/how-to-repair-ubuntu-installation-after-interrupted-dist-upgrade-without-losing))
I'm pretty sure my version is now 16.04 LTS as a mew image: 4.4.0-130-generic was added to GRUB2. However I cannot boot, instead, it tries to boot, fails and brings me to the recovery console.
To fix this, I type:
apt-get update
apt-get -f install
I get this message:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
So then I do exactly that and this happens
dpkg --configure -a
Setting up snapd (2.32.9) ...
Then crashes unexpectedly with no error and then exits the console session with this message:
Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view
system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or ^D to try again to boot into default mode.
Press Enter for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):
dpkg fails to configure snapd and I have no way of running apt-get -f install
How do I fix my interrupted Ubuntu upgrade? Do I:
1. Remove the snapd package? (I'm sure it is not required)
2. Fix snapd package somehow?
Any help would be appreciated. Also reformatting and a clean install is out of the question as I triple boot with Mac, Windows and Ubuntu on a hybrid/mbr gpt partition scheme and I literally have no way to back up my hard drive before reformatting everything.
My initial upgrade seemed to fail when during the upgrade the screen turned black and never recovered after 20mins. I rebooted and then after a painful process of trial and error I was finally able to execute this command to update the distro:
apt-get dist-upgrade
(I was using this guide as reference: how-to-repair-ubuntu-installation-after-interrupted-dist-upgrade-without-losing (https://askubuntu.com/questions/748289/how-to-repair-ubuntu-installation-after-interrupted-dist-upgrade-without-losing))
I'm pretty sure my version is now 16.04 LTS as a mew image: 4.4.0-130-generic was added to GRUB2. However I cannot boot, instead, it tries to boot, fails and brings me to the recovery console.
To fix this, I type:
apt-get update
apt-get -f install
I get this message:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
So then I do exactly that and this happens
dpkg --configure -a
Setting up snapd (2.32.9) ...
Then crashes unexpectedly with no error and then exits the console session with this message:
Welcome to emergency mode! After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view
system logs, "systemctl reboot" to reboot, "systemctl default" or ^D to try again to boot into default mode.
Press Enter for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):
dpkg fails to configure snapd and I have no way of running apt-get -f install
How do I fix my interrupted Ubuntu upgrade? Do I:
1. Remove the snapd package? (I'm sure it is not required)
2. Fix snapd package somehow?
Any help would be appreciated. Also reformatting and a clean install is out of the question as I triple boot with Mac, Windows and Ubuntu on a hybrid/mbr gpt partition scheme and I literally have no way to back up my hard drive before reformatting everything.