I had 8.04 installed and was enjoying the learning experience. This morning, I got an update notice and allowed the system to update to 9.10. Apparently something failed along the way as upon restart, I was presented with a terminal window after the normal Kubuntu splash screen. I logged in and no GUI. I restarted into recovery mode and got a small menu with the first item reading: Could not access PID file for nmbd. Being new to Kubuntu, I have no idea what this means or how to fix it. Can anyone help?
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Re: 9.10 update failed
Accepted wisdom is that you should only update from one issue to the next - 8.04 to 8.10, 8.10 to 9.04, 9.04 to 9.10. Although I have come across oneONE person who succesfully jumped several issues.
If you can you should use a LiveCD to copy off anything that is worth saving, and then make a clean install of 9.10.
A clean install is often better than an update.
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Re: 9.10 update failed
Thank you. I wish I had know that before I allowed the update to start. I guess I will do a clean install. I have Ubuntu working on another partition so I will use it to backup my home folder.Comment
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Re: 9.10 update failed
See my post above: 9.10 hangs during install >
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