Failed Upgrade from 7.1 to 8.04

Mark,

Please confirm what you are booting into:

1. Failsafe GNOME (This is a session that has to be selected when you get the graphical gnome login)

2. Grub Recovery Mode (This is selected with the grub menu)

Harv

Mark,

Please confirm what you are booting into:

1. Failsafe GNOME (This is a session that has to be selected when you get the graphical gnome login)

2. Grub Recovery Mode (This is selected with the grub menu)

Harv

Hi Mark !,

Well, something surely went wrong with your installation, you are not in a position where you have to decide where you want to install ubuntu Hardy 8.04 or back to Gutsy, 7.10 .

But before you are going to do any of those steps, make sure you have backed up all your family photos and things you needed on CD/DVD

Make sure you have a LiveCD, put it into your CD/DVD driver, and boot into ubuntu.
you will find your family photos and data, etc.. now you can back it up over network or into a flash memory.

after backing up, you can just install ubuntu !

hope this simple steps are what you are looking for, they are not precise and are not step by step !

if you need a step by step method, write again here, and we'll help !:)

When I boot.... "Last Session" I get to enter username and password... Then just the background, no links nothing

When I choose Run Xclient Script SAME as Above

When I run GNOME (choice #2) of change session I get: "your default is Xclient" I chose "Just for this session" I get:
      Internal Error failed to initialize HAL and the screen almost loads and blinks a while and then the task bar at the top disappears. My links to my pix as well as songs are ALL THERE... just no command choices...just files

When I log into Failsafe xterm session: I DO get a window with comand line dad@chris-desktop:$

I am command line ignorant (I do miss the DOS days) But I suffer from GUI addiction now.... What can I type to restart the upgrade to 8.04?

THANKS for your help.... I appreciate any ideas!!!

Ok, that answers my question. Let's try to complete the update in your broken gui environment first.

You state that you get a background, no links and I'm assuming no panels either. Try this:

Type the [Alt][F2] key combination on the keyboard. This should pop up a form titled Run Application. Enter the following and hit enter: gksudo update-manager

If that works, you should be prompted for your password and then you can check for updates, which may reinitiate the problematic upgrade.

If the [Alt][F2] key combination doesn't work, then from the Failsafe xterm session, enter the same command as above: gksudo update-manager

Let me know either way, if this works for you.

Mark,

Just checking to see if this resolved your question, or if you needed more information.

Regards,

Harvey

Mark,

Just checking to see if this resolved your question, or if you needed more information.

Regards,

Harvey

Same issue. This work for me:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Regards

Hi Mark,

Would you please post if your problem was solved or if you are still having an issue ?

Hi Mark,

Would you please post if your problem was solved or if you are still having an issue ?

Thanks,
Mostafa Berg