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On 02/09/12 20:53, Martijn Grooten wrote: > Thanks, all for the suggestions. It seems that things were in such a > state, that everything I tried gave errors. I ended up re-installing > Kubuntu. > > Martijn. > For future reference, you fix these issues by netbooting an appropriate installer image (or you can boot via USB or DVD of course, but netbooting is easier and more efficient) and breaking into a root shell. Issue bind mount instructions for the special filesystems, mount your old root and then chroot into the damaged system (there are tutorials all over the net for this, such as http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/06/02/how-to-chroot-to-ubuntu-using-live-cd-to-fix-grub-rescue-prompt/). Now you have full access to your old system but from a basis of a current, fresh installer environment so you will have working networking, etc. Then you can fix any damage - for interrupted upgrades, on Debian-based systems, the laundry list of apt/dpkg commands Tom posted is pretty much everything you'll need. Once you've finished, unmount, exit your shells and reboot into your repaired system. This method can be used for any linux system, not just ubuntu, although minor details will change between distributions. Regards -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq