Howdy Preston:
The command: cat, as we used it, does nothing more that print the contents of the file to your screen.
You can learn more from:
Thanks for posting the output you got. I didn't see anything in there that was a problem. It looks like a virgin grub file. So, evidently, you haven't made any mods to it.
The update-initramfs command just updates some of your kernel initialization files in case there are pending changes to them, similar for update-grub, it just updates some of your grub files if there are any pending changes.
Sorry to read that sikander's suggestion didn't work. I was hoping it would. It dealt with updating, upgrading, and reinstalling Gnome. After that he had you fix any broken dependencies and finally, configure any unpacked but unconfigured packages. All of that is pretty safe stuff.
You can learn more about what he was telling you from:
Code:
man apt-get
man dpkg
I really didn't like the looks of the errors you got. For some reason, something wicked happened that prevented your downloads.
As I said earlier, sikander's suggestions were pretty safe in that he didn't leave you any worse off than you were. That's the mark of a good helper.
Now...I'm going to recommend something that's the mark of a bad helper. If it doesn't work not only are you going to be worse off than you were before, because Gnome will be completely gone, but you may need to perform a fresh installation of Ubuntu from scratch.
So...if you aren't terribly resistant to having to start all over with a fresh installation you could try this first:
Completely remove Gnome and all of its configuration files:
Code:
sudo apt-get purge gdm
Next, install Gnome from scratch:
Note: if your download problem persists you can pretty much kiss Gnome good-bye because the step above blew it off your system. So pray that the following install command is able to run without download failures.
Code:
sudo apt-get install gdm
If you got this far without any errors, then sikander's last two commands wouldn't hurt:
Code:
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo dpkg --configure -a
There wouldn't be any harm in cleaning things up a bit either:
Code:
sudo apt-get autoremove
Reboot.
If none of this worked, then you're probably better off starting with a brand new shiny fresh installation. How about that for a cop-out?
Good Luck,
Crusty
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