I borked Kubuntu

[xt828]

I seem to have rather comprehesively broken my Feisty install through trying to upgrade to Gutsy. I ran the Adept Full Upgrade thing as per the picture instructions, but got a bunch of X11 errors. The install then stalled at 2% on installing packages. I closed it, and then got adept going again through a very long series of commands - i can paste my Konsole command history if needed. To cut a longer story short, when I try to upgrade again through adept, nothing happens - I fetch updates and hit Version Upgrade, an installer is downloaded, and then nothing happens when I hit Finish. Running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade tells me that no packages need upgrading.

Also, opening most programs I get warning messages like "Protocol not supported - File"; "Malformed URL - file:///"; "Could not find mime type - application/octet stream"; "No mime types installed", and many programs do not work as a result. I would really like to find some way of rescuing this without a full reinstall, as I don't have any way of backing up my information in /home easily.

[larsenguitars]

Re: I borked Kubuntu

Try;
sudo dpkg --configure -a

[xt828]

Re: I borked Kubuntu

It pauses, I assume processing for about two seconds, then goes back to the command prompt

[xt828]

Re: I borked Kubuntu

Given that it's looking increasingly like I need to do a full reinstall, is there a Konsole command to export KMail?

When I try from within KMail, I get "Sorry - Ark - Could not find mime type - application/octet stream" followed by "Error - Ark - No mime types installed" and "Error - Ark - Unknown archive format or corrupted archive" and finally "Error - Konqueror - Protocol not supported - file" which leaves me with a blank Konqueror window. By blank, I mean there's no page loaded at all, just a white space.