Upgrade hangs while installing Gutsy Gibbon

[johnerskine]

Running AMD 64 on Efficient PC

As a workaround to another problem, I tried upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy. Unfortunately, after all the packages were downloaded and the installation started, it froze completely while installing Python. As nothing happened for over forty minutes, and I checked the logs to see what was happening (Ksysguard; Ksystemlog) - nothing I decided to halt the installation.

A bad idea, and my machine is now almost unusable, although I can log into Ubuntu on the command line.

Any ideas? Should I reinstall from a new DVD copy of Gutsy, and hope?

[toad]

Re: Upgrade hangs while installing Gutsy Gibbon

I'd try to reconfigure all your packages from the command line. First I'd try

sudo apt-get install -f

If that doesn't work I'd try

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a

Neither of the above are going to destroy your system or do anything dangerous to it. The latter may involve some easy to answer questions.

[johnerskine]

Re: Upgrade hangs while installing Gutsy Gibbon

Slight problem about entering these bist of script, as I currently don't have a working letter 'i', spacebar and backspace key!

See

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3090197.0

Text is

'Yesterday I updated from the Adept repositories, and keyboard stopped working properly. Can't type letter 'i', spacebar, backspace, indeed anything other than letters. PC effectively unusable now.

Most of the updates (about seven) seemed to relate to Battle for Wesnoth packages.'

Any ideas anyone?

[Fintan]

Re: Upgrade hangs while installing Gutsy Gibbon

Ideas? Apart from a clean gutsy install? Not really.
Just a question: did you have automatix2 installed before you upgraded. If you did then that could at the "root" of your problem.

Another thought: You could try to access your xorg.conf file from a live cd and see if you can get your keyboard section back to what it was before. Maybe someone has an idea on what you could do from the live cd??

Sorry I can't be of more help. This is a very strange issue and beyond my expertise. Especially if you cannot type. >

Edit: when you go to /etc/X11 in your root partition you should see an old xorg.conf file. Try to open it as root and save it as xorg.conf.

I hope this helps

[toad]

Re: Upgrade hangs while installing Gutsy Gibbon

I concur with using a live CD and trying to find an older version of your xorg.conf (called xorg.conf.bak or something like that) - you will find it under /etc/Xorg/xorg.conf

[johnerskine]

Re: Upgrade hangs while installing Gutsy Gibbon

Thanks for this

Files in xorg.conf.backup and xorg.conf are the same

The relevant bit reads

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "gb"
Option "XkbOptions" "lv3:ralt_switch"
End Section

I've tried reconfiguring, using

sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg

but this hasn't changed anything

Any further ideas anyone?

[toad]

Re: Upgrade hangs while installing Gutsy Gibbon

Try another keyboard??

Also, what about that Automatix question?

[Snowhog]

Re: Upgrade hangs while installing Gutsy Gibbon

Open K Menu | System | Adept Manager | Adept | Manage Repositories | Third-Party Software and uncheck the CDROM repository entry. Close Adept. Open a console and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install

Report back on the results.