[vox-tech] Ubuntu 10.04 LTS upgrade woes

[Bill Kendrick]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:55:40PM -0800, Alex Mandel wrote:
> I can burn one for you in the morning. This is one reason why I do
> separate partitions for / and /home.

Cool, thanks.  And yeah, lesson learned.  :)


> Have you tried an apt-get dist-upgrade with a force option from the
> command line to see if it just needs to rerun or finish some stuff. My
> upgrade along the same line went fine for my laptop a few months back.

Well at this point I'm dropped into a root shell, disk is read-only,
and things are borked (e.g., Vim doesn't run). So I figured a live CD would
be the least frustrating situation to work off of.

Thx!

-bill!