My update died, and now my computer is too crippled to reinstall.

[Ortin]

I was upgrading from Kubuntu Feisty to Gutsy because I was sick of the Adept Package Manager icon popping up all the time. While the actual update to 7.10 was successful, when I was downloading the thousand other packages for it adept crashed somehow. I don't have the error message, and in fact that's not what I'm worried about.

In its current state it won't connect to the internet. It also won't read CD-roms. The System Settings tab crashes with signal 11 (SIGSEGV) and the cd-rom drive says "feature only available with HAL". I don't understand what either mean.

This is a single boot machine. I've burned the Gutsy iso to disk (using a seperate computer) and want to install it. But without the cd-rom drive or the internet I can't get the update onto the computer.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? My goal is to get a fresh installation of Gutsy onto my computer. Failing that, I'll just switch back to Feisty.

[integr8e]

Re: My update died, and now my computer is too crippled to reinstall.

If all you want is a fresh install, set your BIOS to boot from CD first, insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive, and reboot your computer.

If you want to attempt fixing the upgrade, try this:

- Open Konsole and enter the following command:

kdesu kate /etc/network/interfaces

- Replace everything in the file with the following (leave a blank line at the end of the file):

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

auto ath0
#iface ath0 inet dhcp

- Save it, and you should be able to connect to the internet again (right-click the KNetworkManager icon in your system tray, and try to enable your network); then, in still in Kate, press Ctrl+O and open /etc/apt/sources.list

- If your computer is 64bit, skip this step and go to the next one; if it is 32bit, replace everything in the file with the following (be sure to leave a blank line at the end):

# Automatically generated sources.list
# http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic/
#
# If you get GPG errors with this sources.list, locate the GPG key in this file
# and run these commands (where KEY is replaced with that key)
#
# gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys KEY
# gpg --export --armor KEY | sudo apt-key add -
#
# If you don't know what to do with this file, read
# https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...es/CommandLine

# Ubuntu supported packages
# GPG key: 437D05B5
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted

deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted

# Ubuntu community supported packages
# GPG key: 437D05B5
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe multiverse

deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe multiverse

# Ubuntu backports project
# GPG key: 437D05B5
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

- If you have a 64bit computer, replace everything in the file with the following (be sure to leave a blank line at the end):

# Automatically generated sources.list
# http://www.ubuntu-nl.org/source-o-matic/
#
# If you get GPG errors with this sources.list, locate the GPG key in this file
# and run these commands (where KEY is replaced with that key)
#
# gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys KEY
# gpg --export --armor KEY | sudo apt-key add -
#
# If you don't know what to do with this file, read
# https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Re...es/CommandLine

# Ubuntu supported packages
# GPG key: 437D05B5
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted

deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted

# Ubuntu community supported packages
# GPG key: 437D05B5
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy universe multiverse
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe multiverse

deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy universe multiverse
deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-updates universe multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe multiverse

# Ubuntu backports project
# GPG key: 437D05B5
deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-backports main restricted universe multiverse

- Then, save it; in Konsole, run the following series of commands:

sudo aptitude clean && sudo aptitude autoclean

sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude full-upgrade -y

- That should do the trick, if you get any errors, try the following codes:

sudo aptitude update

sudo apt-get install -f

sudo dpkg --configure -a

- If none of those work, let me know.