Ubuntu 14.04 Start up Problems months after Installing it

[lcbmac]

Hi Bashing-om

does this mean i should try and do a reinstall from the CD. Obviously I would lose all my data. right?? If so. Dam lol

[Bashing-om]

lcbmac; Welp:

Looks that way. If = as i keep asking -

dpkg --configure -a

in the CHroot environment
has a null return. I can not conceive of a way forward.
And with the CD access enabled, will only cause additional problems IF old software is installed into the present installed system.

I had thought that you had your data copied off the install ..if that is not the case, can still be done.

It is a rare thing, but as is

I am advising to take the "nuclear solution", and

(RE-)install

[gvelim]

It appears the install script cannot restart the service, so a brutal approach is

1) sudo apt-get install -f
2) open new terminal and type in sudo gnome-system-monitor
3) find the rsyslogd process and kill it

you'll find the apt-get command will execute and the rsyslogd process will be restarted.

done

[Jonathan Precise]

Sorry, not too experienced with this situation in particular, but even if "dpkg --configure -a" didn't return anything, try running it and then running apt, and see if it still complains. In other words, run this from the Chroot environment:

dpkg --configure --pending
apt-get -s autoremove
apt-get autoclean
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get -f install

It is essential that once the first command starts, this process should not finish until the last command completes.