Watch out for todays upgrade......

[Fintan]

After upgrading today (with synaptic) I can't boot into my Feisty. I get to a bash telling me that apt-get is not installed. To install type apt-get install apt, which of course doesn't work because apt-get isn't installed
startx doesn't work either because it is not installed. :P
It sends me to the login screen which will not load my kde. Has the upgrade uninstalled my kde amongst other things??
Obviously recovery doesn't work either.

Any ideas??

[dibl]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

Yikes --- that is ugly! I just ran Adept upgrade and update, then saw your post. I guess I should be afraid to re-start the xserver at this point .....

I did notice there was an Adept update on the list.

[michellembrodeur]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

Yikes --- that is ugly! I just ran Adept upgrade and update, then saw your post. I guess I should be afraid to re-start the xserver at this point .....

I did notice there was an Adept update on the list.

I did the update and rebooted everything is fine. But at the end of the update it said a "NEW VERSION OF KUBUNTU IS READY" click NEXT to install. There is no next key. So how do I tell what version I have installed. There was a lot of updates today.

[dibl]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

Whew -- that was a sweaty 3 minutes, but my system survived a reboot and all seems fine.

Yes, Michelle, I do remember seeing that message, and wondering "what the heck -- what "NEXT" button?". I guess a programmer was a little hung over or something ....

:-X

uname -r still returns "2.6.20-13-generic", so that doesn't look an upgrade to me ....

[Fintan]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

Lucky you guys, poor me >

I used synaptic and didn't see that message or a "next" button for that matter.

Anyway I tried again and wrote some of the stuff the screen showed me:
bash: no job control in this shell
bash: groups: command not found
bash: lesspipe: command not found
bash: dircolors: command not found
etc, etc.

Well if anyone has an idea I'd really aprec. it

[dibl]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

Fintan, I don't know enough Linux/unix to be of much help, but one notion that occurred to me is the possibility that your user configuration is all screwed up, but maybe not the main Linux system? Would it possible to login as the super user and make a new user, and see if he can do things that your old user can't do?

Just throwing out guesses here -- it looks pretty dismal ....

[Fintan]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

HEH, heh, I tried that but forgot to mention what happens when doing startx in recovery mode:
startx is not installed, you can install it by typing apt-get install xinit

I will try and login as super user from the login screen. I have never done that with kubuntu.
Is it user: sudo, passwordxxx ?

I don't think my user is corupted, I wouldn't know why it should be, but provided I can login I'll give that a shot.

[dibl]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

Did you try aptitude? I think it is apt-get's big brother -- command structure all the same.

[Fintan]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

No, but how can I without apt?

[dibl]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

try "sudo aptitude autoclean"

then "sudo aptitude update"

then "sudo aptitude install"

then (if you're still upright) "sudo aptitude install apt-get"

or, get really crazy and "sudo aptitude dist-upgrade"

I'll pray ...

:P

[dibl]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

Adept Notifier is suddenly telling me there are more updates. It must be because I am in North America that it is behind Europe. I'm VERY afraid now .... :P

[penguin.ch]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

I'm VERY afraid now .... :P

On my test system (07.04 beta 1), "now and here" (i.e. 04.04. 15.00 in Switzerland), apt-get works like a charm ...

[Fintan]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

Okay I'll give that a try

[dibl]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

Hmmm -- I got my courage together and ran the Adept Updater. It said there were 28 upgrades (40MB). But, upon completion of the installation process, there were unresolved dependencies, so no change. I think I will try Synaptic ... I'm too curious for my own good....


EDIT: Synaptic agrees with Adept -- there are unresolved dependencies. No upgrades happening here, near term.

[Fintan]

Re: Watch out for todays upgrade......

Okay, in recovery mode: sudo aptitude autoclean gave me:
sh: groups: comand not found
bash: sudo: comand not found

I then tried: aptitude autoclean which gave me: aptitude not found, to install type apt-get install aptitude, blah, blahdiblah.

Anyone?? Please!