[svlug] interrupted ubuntu update

[Warren Turkal]

On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Larry Colen <lrc at red4est.com> wrote:
>  Now, it will boot into ubuntu, but just into text, no X. I had been
>  doing the update with update manager, but that won't work without X.

Do you have Intel video? If so, check your /etc/X11/xorg.conf and make
sure the driver for your video card is "intel" instead of "810" or any
of the others. This should allow you to get back into X if you have
intel video. I had to do this fix even on a Dell 1420 preloaded with
Ubuntu.

You can also try "do-release-upgrade" from the console if you can't
get back into X. I believe that is the actual logic that Ubuntu uses
for an upgrade to a new release. Also, I think that Ubuntu (and
Debian) recommend aptitude for maintaining packages at this time.

wt