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On Thursday 25 October 2007 17:19, Viv wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:40 +0100, Tom Potts wrote: > > I thought I'd successfully upgraded from 7.04 to 7.10 but after a reboot > > the thing went into upgrade mode and failed and wont run proper now! I've > > burned a Kubuntu 7.10 i396 desktop but cant seem to get it to want to > > just repair the current installation. > > Any ideas how to do this? > > Tom te tom te tom > > When I upgraded, the process did not seem to work properly but, the > machine was still working fine. To begin with, each time I opened Adept > Manager, I was being prompted to upgrade the distro again and if I did, > the upgrade failed. So, I just ignored the upgrade prompts and after a > few normal file updates done by Adept, everything now seems fine. > > How is your machine not working ? Is it not booting ? It boots but I cant get the networking working. Seems to be a problem with pam so I cant su or sudo to do anything like fix it. Catch 22 ish ...... Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html