booting error on ubuntu 12.04 after aborted upgrade

Asked by Joshua

Hello, i have a problem, i installed ubuntu on my dell and it was 11.10, i upgraded but i cancelled it in the middle of the upgrade, it asked me if i wanted to do a partial upgrade and i said yes, after that was done, i installed 12.04. Everytime when i start the computer and loggin, i get an error message which says i had an internal error. I get this many, many times and asks me like a million times to send it in to the suportors and i just get the error message. Any help? I am running A dell Latitude D630 and my old Inspiron 1300 runs fine with no errors.

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Best Chris (fabricator4) said :
#1

It sounds like you've got broken dependancies. Some of the sytem may be at one release level, and other components may be at another.

When you say "...after that was done, I installed 12.04." how did you do this? If you did a clean install then it should have fixed all of these problems

You could try in a terminal or console:

sudo apt-get -f install

and if you still have problems, try:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

If you still have problems it might be useful to know exactly where you are up to. Please give the output of:

lsb_release -a
and
uname -a

Chris

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Barry Drake (b-drake) said :
#2

I agree with Chris and would add: a fauly system could possibly cause problems and data loss. If all else fails, do you have all your data and settings saved?

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Joshua (whiteknight257) said :
#3

Thanks Chris, that solved my question.

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Joshua (whiteknight257) said :
#4

I looked in the update stuff again and it came with the files i was missing, i restarted my computer and it no longer did it...