Update-Manager crash seems to have caused major problems

[davepoth]

This is a Natty system, but I don't know whether it's related or whether enough people read there to find an answer.

I ran update manager to update to the latest releases for Natty, and it crashed. I ran it again and it told me it could only do a partial upgrade, and that I should do apt-get install -f. I did that, but apt-get told me the system was locked by another program. Not to worry I thought, I'll just reboot.

So I did that, and I think Update-Manager got a lot further through the process than I thought, because my system is borked. It'll boot into Gnome, but when booting up the Boot Screen no longer shows the pretty Ubuntu Logo, but rather a line of text that says "Ubuntu 11.04". When it gets into Gnome the keyboard and mouse more or less don't work (although the keyboard based Fn+9 and Fn+10 brightness controll still works) and there is no desktop background. After about 30 seconds something crashes but I can't click on it to find out what.

Going into the recovery console doesn't help either. The latest Kernel (2.6.38-7) stops moving forwards after "Begin:Running /scripts/init-bottom...done". has occurred for the second time.

Luckily I still have the previous kernel (

which gets to the same spot and then tells me "init: udevtrigger main process (390) terminated with status 1" and then "init: udevtrigger post-stop process (394) terminated with status 1".

I then get the message "The disc drive for / is not ready yet or not present
Continue to wait; or Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery". S goes back to "Begin:Running /scripts/init-bottom...done" a second time, M brings up the message

"Root filesystem check failed
A maintenance shell will now be started"
and then it asks for the root password and gives me a terminal.

Everything seems to be there, but apt-get and dpkg both can't do anything as the filesystem is read only.

I'm really a bit stuck and this is a bit beyond my skills. Any ideas?

[jacobmh]

I need this answered. There have been a lot of people dodging around this issue, but from the forums and the bug report filed for it, it's actually a pretty big issue.

[stevepowell99]

exactly the same thing happened to me. Having no luck. Disk and filesystem are OK.

[stevepowell99]

Fixed it! after pressing m to manually fix the problem, I did a

mount -o remount, rw /

and that remounted the partitions as in the /etc/fstab. If you want to (re-)mount differently, look at man mount.
So that gave me a mounted, read-write filesystem.
So then I was able to do sudo apt-get update -f, which told me I needed to reconfigure dpkg, which I did by following the instruction (can't remember exactly what).
Now it works!

[sam.crowther]

thanks Stevepowell99,

sudo apt-get update -f was the missing step, issues with winbind, but i'm sure i can suss that out now i have a desktop again.

[rungss]

Fixed it! after pressing m to manually fix the problem, I did a

mount -o remount, rw /

I was able to Configure and run Ubuntu after following the above steps

But Now I don't see all my Panel Items, nor can I add the most necessary items.
When I click on Add to Panel, I don't see Notification Applet, Information Applet etc in the list..

Any idea?

I can't connect to Internet either..

Edit:
I got it to Work.
Here is the steps I followed.

I ran

sudo apt-get upgrade

It asked me to run

sudo apt-get -f install

as there was dependency Problem

I did that.
When done I ran

sudo apt-get upgrade

Then again I ran

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

And Rebooted, All is well now..

[JimPBarber]

Same issue here. However, I tried the fixes here and I got another error stating that there were too many errors and then it stopped.

After a reboot I am in the same spot of S to skip or M to manually fix.

[dakota34]

thanks stevepowell99, worked like a charm

[Chris Agg]

After

mount -o remount, rw /

I try to run

sudo apt-get update -f

but get:

"E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (2: No such file or directory)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg), are you root?"

I am root. Was running the upgrade to 11.04 from an up-to-date system on 10.10.
Please anybody help me!!

[AreEK]

After

mount -o remount, rw /

I try to run

sudo apt-get update -f

but get:

"E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (2: No such file or directory)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg), are you root?"

I am root. Was running the upgrade to 11.04 from an up-to-date system on 10.10.
Please anybody help me!!

Maybe

/var

is on a different device? You could try

mount -o remount, rw /var