The upgrade has aborted. System unstable

[Guest]

Hello,

I tried to upgrade 13.10 -> 14-04 via Muon GUI. The upgrade failed with error message "Could not install the upgrades: The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unstable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a)."

Upgrade log:

2014-04-19 10:09:18,645 ERROR not handled exception in KDE frontend:
SystemError: E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


2014-04-19 10:09:18,646 DEBUG running apport_crash()
2014-04-19 10:09:18,756 ERROR SystemError from cache.commit(): installArchives() failed
2014-04-19 10:10:56,968 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
2014-04-19 10:10:56,970 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript: './xorg_fix_proprietary.py'
2014-04-19 10:11:00,301 DEBUG enabling apt cron job

The GRUB was broken, but I got it fixed and finally manged to reboot. I tried to fix the packages, but I don't know if I managed to do so.

After a reboot the system is working somehow, but very slowly and it does all kinds of strange things.

- System reacts very slowly and has little freezes now and then
- Keyboard is unusable in Firefox browser. After every five letters you write, next four keypresses lead to "dsab". If you for example hold down space, firefox writes " dsab dsab dsab" and holding key a leads to "aaaaadsabaaaaadsabaaa".
- Because Firefox was unusable, and I thought you wouldn't like to read dsab's, I changed to Rekonq browser. On first try Rekonq took a fair 7GB ram with on e tab and this page (and usage was rising all the time). After restart it has been better (now 300MB).

How can I fix or finish the aborted upgrade?

[Snowhog]

You will/should/need to be on a wired internet connection for the following.

Reboot and enter Recovery Mode from the Grub Menu. After you've logged in type:

apt-get install -f
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade

After all finishes, type:

shutdown -r now

[Guest]

There was nothing but one package to update. The only one was unneeded, so I removed it.

After the latest reboot, the system feels more stable and the issues mentioned above are gone. Maybe some changes I made on search indexing and desktop effects fixed those.

The Firefox issue was weird, Does anyone know, what can cause that?

[sithlord48]

Broken packages can cause all kinds of strange issues.