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Remote update to feisty reset half-way through, what are my options?

Asked by controlrobot

I attempted to remotely update a computer from Edgy to Feisty by remotely running the update manager. All was working well until part way through the install of the upgrade when the network manager on the remote machine was reset as part of the upgrade process ... this of course caused my connection to be reset, and the update to seemingly stop halfway through. Now, the machine will boot but when I get to the login screen and enter my information, it then hangs forever without bringing up the desktop.

Are there any ways to resume this update process? Or should I really just reinstall 7.10 from scratch? I'd like to avoid the from scratch reinstall if possible, but I'm not sure there are any other options.

Thanks for your help!

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

Thanks for your question.

Can you access the machine locally? Or can you get to the consol vie serial interface server or something like this?

If yes, you can execute the following commands to continue the upgrade process

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If everything runs through, you should be fine.

I hope this helps.

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Best controlrobot (j-w-durham) said : 		#2

Okay, I'm trying that now. I could not log on locally, but I was able to login using ssh. When I ran:

sudo apt-get update

It told me that dpkg had been previously interrupted and to run:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Which is what I am trying now. So far, so good =) Thanks so much!