I was upgrading Ubuntu to 12.04 from 11.10 (x64) and right in the middle of the package installation I had a freeze (not Ubuntu's fault) forcing me to do a hard reset of my pc. Now the Ubuntu installation is completely broken I can only get access via recovery mode. I already tried apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
and the option to fix broken packages. Nothing changed.
So I'm wondering if its possible to fix the broken packages, or maybe to restore before the upgrade?
fsck
check on your file system to make sure it was OK? (When this happened to mefsck
found something to fix.)fsck
and see what happens.apt-get install -f
?fsck
and everything seems ok. I reinstalled xserver and the propietary radeon drivers and the GUI is back. However, the integrity of the system seems heavily damaged, it keeps showing me messages about "errors in the system" to report, applications that can't be launched and the left and upper menus of the desktop disappearing. So, in this case what should be the optimal solution? reinstall ubuntu from scratch?