Partial dist upgrade messed unity

[pmatos]

Hi,

I have been on 11.10 since release and today I got notification of a partial dist release. After that it recommended me to restart and I did so. Upon starting Unity, it just shows the background and a themeless bar on top and nothing else. I need to kill Xorg and start with Ubuntu2d to have any luck into using ubuntu.

Any ideas what the problem might be or where unity writes its logs so I can understand what's going wrong?

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

[jerrrys]

it can happen

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1641400

[pmatos]

it can happen

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1641400

Oh great! Should've seen that before. I guess in time I will get another partial upgrade that will fix things?

[jerrrys]

That is (should be) correct

You can always try in terminal:

sudo apt-get update

[pmatos]

That is (should be) correct

You can always try in terminal:

sudo apt-get update

Unfornately no update shows up since I messed up the system. Now, whenever I open a terminal, nothing shows up, logging in takes ages, etc etc.

Any suggestions on how to force reinstall of all the basic ubuntu desktop packages?

Cheers,

Paulo Matos

[jerrrys]

Try this to get a terminal.

Load ubuntu and press Ctrl Alt F5 keys at the same time and then try to log in.

If you get that far then enter:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo reboot

[pmatos]

Try this to get a terminal.

Load ubuntu and press Ctrl Alt F5 keys at the same time and then try to log in.

If you get that far then enter:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo reboot

Here's what happens, if I go to a virtual terminal, F2 for example, I login and it takes ages. If I do Ctrl-C, I get a prompt. Doing apt-get update/upgrade shows nothing.

I can get into X but login takes ages. Then everything seems to be fine until I try to open a terminal (gnome-terminal/Xterm you name it), it takes forever to load it and I end up giving up.

[jerrrys]

what about rescue mode

[pmatos]

what about rescue mode

Rescue mode worked but normal mode didn't. Went nuts and did a dist-upgrade to 12.04.

Unfortunately not all is well, even though a lot of things got better.
I can only start Ubuntu 2D. Normal ubuntu login fails because unity bar and top bar don't load. Any way to understand what's going on (log file)?

[jerrrys]

Wow, upgraded to 12o4, I'm impressed. But thats probably the last thing you wanted to do. Im running 12o4 and its good, but still a work in progress. I think you have added to your problems.