Screwed up an upgrade from 14.10->15.04->15.10 badly. I've been messing around in recovery mode and am confidentish that I managed to get all the broken packages/dependencies removed and reinstalled, but now I'm running into this queer issue. Aptitude won't run, it says I need to do stuff with dpkg. dpkg will do stuff, but always gets hung up on
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory (g-io-error-quark, 1)
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory (g-io-error-quark, 1)
[ OK ] Started Braille Device Support.
This Braille hang has been plaguing me for a while, but I've finally reached an impasse. The first part, with the errors, seems to be an obscure error relating to screwed up hard drives, and after some log digging, it seems as though it may me pointing to the Windows partition on this HD, which is fine. That seems like a dead end, and I can't find anything else on it online.
I'd really like to not have to backup, reformat, and reinstall. Does anybody have a lead?