[ale] Never update before coffee - what now?

[Jim Lynch]

On 03/07/2013 03:11 PM, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> Ok, I did a dumb user thing several weeks ago.
>
> My HP notebook was booted to Ubuntu 10.x LTS.   On a Saturday morning, 
> I made the mistake of firing it up before the coffee had fired me 
> up.   The Ubuntu Upgrade Manager wanted my attention, and I will 
> confess I poked something and I wasn't awake to fully know.    I MAY 
> have poked the 'New Ubuntu Release '12.04.2 LTS' is available;  I just 
> wasn't awake.    I know it did a lot more churning than I would have 
> expected for a normal update.
>
> Now, here's the extra excitement - Ubuntu 11 won't even boot on this 
> HP Pavillion dv7-1245dx.   I mean the Canonical staff were amazed at a 
> linux show that it wouldn't boot their USB a couple of years ago.  It 
> did a bunch of video noodling and gave up.   I have no reason to be 
> assured that Ubuntu 12 will boot successfully.
>
> So now, when the update manager runs, and I tell it to install the 36 
> updates it has listed, it says
>
>     Not all updates can be installed
>     Run a partial upgrade, to install as many updates as possible.
>     This can be caused by
>
>         A previous upgrade that didn't complete
>         Problems with some of the installed software
>         Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
>         Normal changes of a pre-release version of ubuntu
>
> It's still offering an upgrade button up at the top for 12.04.2 LTS.
>
> This lends credence to the notion that while asleep I did poke the 
> upgrade button and it's started the process.
>
> I haven't rebooted since, but really can't put this off forever.
>
> The contents of the /boot directory don't look like there's a new 
> Ubuntu 12 kernel...
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  647151 2012-09-24 14:11 abi-2.6.32-44-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  647369 2013-01-02 18:24 abi-2.6.32-45-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  110567 2012-09-24 14:11 config-2.6.32-44-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  110589 2013-01-02 18:24 config-2.6.32-45-generic
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 2013-02-02 08:25 grub
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8377971 2012-10-25 22:04 
> initrd.img-2.6.32-44-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8379002 2013-02-02 08:25 
> initrd.img-2.6.32-45-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  160280 2010-03-23 05:40 memtest86+.bin
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2161072 2012-09-24 14:11 
> System.map-2.6.32-44-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2162442 2013-01-02 18:24 
> System.map-2.6.32-45-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1336 2012-09-24 14:12 
> vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-44-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    1336 2013-01-02 18:25 
> vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-45-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4063584 2012-09-24 14:11 vmlinuz-2.6.32-44-generic
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4065152 2013-01-02 18:24 vmlinuz-2.6.32-45-generic
>
> It has however decided that it wants to reboot.
>
> Are there places in Ubuntu where it has recorded some textual evidence 
> regarding what upgrade/update processing it intends to do, and can I 
> undo or cancel those actions?
>
> I don't mind eventually doing the upgrade, once I get a chance to burn 
> and ISO and verify it can actually boot.
>
>
> Neal Rhodes
> who gets to wear the dumb user hat this month.
>
>
>
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First thing to do is look at the /etc/apt/sources.list.  If you see 
"lucid" you're still on 10.04 and something else is wrong.  If you see 
"precise" it trying to install 12.04.

Try as root:
dpkg --configure -a

And possible

apt-get install -f

Jim.
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