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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/07/2013 03:11 PM, Neal Rhodes
wrote:<br>
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Ok, I did a dumb user thing several weeks ago. <br>
<br>
My HP notebook was booted to Ubuntu 10.x LTS. On a Saturday
morning, I made the mistake of firing it up before the coffee had
fired me up. The Ubuntu Upgrade Manager wanted my attention, and
I will confess I poked something and I wasn't awake to fully
know. I MAY have poked the 'New Ubuntu Release '12.04.2 LTS' is
available; I just wasn't awake. I know it did a lot more
churning than I would have expected for a normal update. <br>
<br>
Now, here's the extra excitement - Ubuntu 11 won't even boot on
this HP Pavillion dv7-1245dx. I mean the Canonical staff were
amazed at a linux show that it wouldn't boot their USB a couple of
years ago. It did a bunch of video noodling and gave up. I have
no reason to be assured that Ubuntu 12 will boot successfully. <br>
<br>
So now, when the update manager runs, and I tell it to install the
36 updates it has listed, it says<br>
<blockquote> Not all updates can be installed<br>
Run a partial upgrade, to install as many updates as possible.<br>
This can be caused by <br>
<blockquote> A previous upgrade that didn't complete<br>
Problems with some of the installed software<br>
Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu<br>
Normal changes of a pre-release version of ubuntu<br>
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It's still offering an upgrade button up at the top for 12.04.2
LTS. <br>
<br>
This lends credence to the notion that while asleep I did poke the
upgrade button and it's started the process. <br>
<br>
I haven't rebooted since, but really can't put this off forever.
<br>
<br>
The contents of the /boot directory don't look like there's a new
Ubuntu 12 kernel...<br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 647151 2012-09-24 14:11
abi-2.6.32-44-generic</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 647369 2013-01-02 18:24
abi-2.6.32-45-generic</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110567 2012-09-24 14:11
config-2.6.32-44-generic</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110589 2013-01-02 18:24
config-2.6.32-45-generic</tt><br>
<tt>drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2013-02-02 08:25 grub</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8377971 2012-10-25 22:04
initrd.img-2.6.32-44-generic</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8379002 2013-02-02 08:25
initrd.img-2.6.32-45-generic</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 160280 2010-03-23 05:40 memtest86+.bin</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2161072 2012-09-24 14:11
System.map-2.6.32-44-generic</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2162442 2013-01-02 18:24
System.map-2.6.32-45-generic</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1336 2012-09-24 14:12
vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-44-generic</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1336 2013-01-02 18:25
vmcoreinfo-2.6.32-45-generic</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4063584 2012-09-24 14:11
vmlinuz-2.6.32-44-generic</tt><br>
<tt>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4065152 2013-01-02 18:24
vmlinuz-2.6.32-45-generic</tt><br>
<br>
It has however decided that it wants to reboot. <br>
<br>
Are there places in Ubuntu where it has recorded some textual
evidence regarding what upgrade/update processing it intends to
do, and can I undo or cancel those actions?<br>
<br>
I don't mind eventually doing the upgrade, once I get a chance to
burn and ISO and verify it can actually boot. <br>
<br>
<br>
Neal Rhodes <br>
who gets to wear the dumb user hat this month. <br>
<br>
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First thing to do is look at the /etc/apt/sources.list. If you see
"lucid" you're still on 10.04 and something else is wrong. If you
see "precise" it trying to install 12.04. <br>
<br>
Try as root:<br>
dpkg --configure -a<br>
<br>
And possible <br>
<br>
apt-get install -f<br>
<br>
Jim.<br>
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