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Siduction Forum => Upgrade Warnings => Topic started by: titan on 2014/10/20, 19:16:37
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I did a du yesterday and it failed near the end with an error
dpkg was interrupted you must run 'dpkg -- configure -a'
doing this it start to process the upgrade then goes to a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the top left corner, I have left it 30 min but nothing happens and it will not respond to any keys I have to turn it of but it reboots OK.
The last thing it is processing before the blank screen is something like f11 live initscripts I can't read it all as it goes by so fast.
I have tried again today but it is still the same and nobody else seems to have a problem, any suggestions.
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While you have the blank screen with blinking cursor, it should be possible to reach tty1 with hitting Strg+Alt+F1. Login as root and perform
apt-get install -f
Then look if you are hit by the same as in [solved] nvidia-driver 340.46-2 breaks KDE (http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=5076.msg41711#msg41711) .
Last but not least, messages regarding live-initscripts (if it really was live what you have seen) should not occur on an installed system, so apt-get purge fll-*
would be the solution (http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=4954.msg40779#msg40779) for that.
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While you have the blank screen with blinking cursor, it should be possible to reach tty1 with hitting Strg+Alt+F1. Login as root and perform apt-get install -f
Then look if you are hit by the same as in [solved] nvidia-driver 340.46-2 breaks KDE (http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=5076.msg41711#msg41711) .
Last but not least, messages regarding live-initscripts (if it really was live what you have seen) should not occur on an installed system, so apt-get purge fll-*
would be the solution (http://forum.siduction.org/index.php?topic=4954.msg40779#msg40779) for that.
I am already in tty1 control+alt+F2 is not available it will not accept any command only 'dpkg -- configure -a' which goes back to blank screen.
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It is not posible to input any apt or dpkg commands as 'dpkg -- configure -a' is the only option.
I have found if I delete /var/lib/dpkg/updates I can go through a dist-upgrade again which fails as before when the upgrade reaches f11 live-initscripts I have tried removing it with
apt-get purge f11-* but it says it is not installed
The upgrade is definitely failing at "setting up f11 live-initscripts 2014 10 14"
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hello titan,
please try the lowercase of FLL (fll is short for fullstory, and there is no eleven involved).
greetings
musca
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hello titan,
please try the lowercase of FLL (fll is short for fullstory, and there is no eleven involved).
greetings
musca
musca, many thanks that fixed it. I must get better glasses!
Ian