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Shutdown durring update killed ubuntu / update killed mouse

Asked by Rich Porter

1) Ubuntu hardy (development branch) 8.04

2) Newest update as of 04/09/08

3,4) I forgot that I was running the update in the background and shut down my computer via the button on the task bar. The computer shut down (There should be a warning there that you might break your computer if you don't finish the update). I came back a few hours later, it booted into a black screen with my mouse cursor instead of a log on screen.

I restarted to recovery / root console, attempted dpkg --configure -a, and it failed because one of the services wasn't running (I should've written it down, either way though, it wouldn't fix it).

I restarted and chose the normal boot, then when it gave me the black screen I switched to a terminal and it allowed me to dpkg --configure -a, fixing the update. However, when I got back to gnome login, my mouse was no longer working (Logitech mx-something wireless laser).

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This question was originally filed as bug #214906.

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better.

Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

May be this can help you...
Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update --fix-missing
sudo apr-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

then reboot by typing:

sudo reboot

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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