Restore point? Bad update

Not that I am aware of personally, you can manually create one if you use something like partimage to create a bz2 image of your / partition. This will need to be done with the partition unmounted. I recommend a livecd environment for this.

Can you please provide:
lsb_release -a
uname -a
The EXACT error shown regarding Gnome Power Manager

Thanks

Wow. I have no idea what you're writing about. How about this? Can you show me how to get the computer to respond to my wireless router? I cannot connect to the internet. The wireless icon that used to be at the top of the screen at the right is gone. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04. Thank you.

Open terminal (gnome) or konsole (kde) and execute each command and paste the output of each command as information here. If you are missing the app, you could install wifi-radar. You could use a wired connection to install this or use the CD you installed Ubuntu with to install the app from there (you will need to enable the cd as a repository)

Thx, but this came preloaded-no cd. Cannot acquire wireless access at all. Any way to get back on to the internet, step by step, would be appreciated.

Is it possible to used a WIRED connection to get online to install whats needed? I strongly recommend this. I'd also download, MD5 test and burn a desktop CD for troubleshooting purposes.

You could try:

sudo mv /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces_old

then rebooting. This should reset your network settings. You could also try configuring the connection in that file which will supercede any settings that network manager will implement.

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/

you can test the wifi device is still functioning with: sudo iwlist scan

If you see SSIDs then the device is working and can find accesspoints if this is the case, all that is needed is thewifi config which you will be able to complete with wifi-radar or similar

You could also reboot and read through dmesg | less to see if the device is detected and setup correctly. I am still wanting the outputs from the commands I requested earlier, these would be a great help to all attempting to help in this issue.

Now I'm getting an error message: dpkg was interrupted. Must run 'dpkg configure a to correct problem. E:_cache->open failed

No clue. and is their a dos-like section to actually write text? I'm using ubuntu 8.04. Thx.

in terminal run:

sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock;sudo dpkg --configure -a

make sure you don't have any other package apps open (like synaptic) as this will make the command not work. Sounds like your update did not finish or there was an issue with it. This may be why you are having these issues.

To launch terminal (The thing you think is like DOS, but is way more powerful) use Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal

Actionparsnip, it worked like a charm. Thank you very much for your help. You must have a lot of good karma!

Please mark as solved ;)

Enjoy the week!

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.