need to get the dash back and running so I can upgrade to 14.04 What to do? Can't get to root, synaptic nor software updater.
2 Answers
Assuming you're on 13.10 you can press ctrlaltF1 and run it from command line.
sudo apt-get install update-manager-core (this may already be there)
sudo do-release-upgrade
After you manage to open a command line as per Musher instruction, you can try the following commands to fix your broken upgrade to 14.04
In a command line run:
lsb_release -a
That will let you know what version you have installed. If in doubt, you can always fix an incomplete upgrade with:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
If while that is running you get errors, then you can run:
sudo apt-get install -f
then repeat
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get upgrade
That should fix any broken version 13 packages that did not upgrade properly to 14.04
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