My installation of 14.04LTS was working just fine, then I had an update that included Firefox and many other apps and such (240Mb worth). When they downloaded and installed -- and I rebooted, as required -- things went really crazy.
At bootup, I get "Some things didn't download - run the update now?" I click Do It and ten seconds later I am asked to do it again. During that ten seconds, a terminal window pops up, I see a bit of downloading, and just as the window is closing again, I see that whatever it was downloaded, but that's all. I do NOT see if it downloaded properly. Then the "Some things didn't download - run the update now?" pop-up appears again.
Now Firefox fails to start and I get the "please report problem..."
Thunderbird fails to start and I get "please report to Mozilla...."
The system tools manager may or may not start. If it does, some of the settings will work, others will hang, turn grey, and then the entire window just disappears. The "Info" is one the simply disappears. I can't get it from the top Menu bar either under my username -> System Info.
If I open a terminal, I can get a few things to run, but most of the time any command I issue (with or without SUDO) will simply give me back the prompt after ten seconds or so.
Gimp will not run - it greys out and I get a failure notice that "something inside 14.04 broke".
Ubuntu Tweak will give me the splash screen, grey out and die.
Now, on bootup, I get "something internal to 14.04 failed" and I am asked to report it. I also see "A new version is availzable...." and before I can enter my password, the box disappears and I am not asked to upgrade again until I log out and back in.
Every app on my Unity bar will fail and I am asked to report the problem, which,of course, fails also.
So, apparently, I don't have the option of UPGRADE and thus save all my apps. I have to completely INSTALL 16.04 cold and wipe everything out.
Is this true or not? Can I recover from whatever it was that whacked my system? I know how to use apt-get, but that doesn't seem to help. Can that be used to do the 16.04 upgrade?
Bill
At bootup, I get "Some things didn't download - run the update now?" I click Do It and ten seconds later I am asked to do it again. During that ten seconds, a terminal window pops up, I see a bit of downloading, and just as the window is closing again, I see that whatever it was downloaded, but that's all. I do NOT see if it downloaded properly. Then the "Some things didn't download - run the update now?" pop-up appears again.
Now Firefox fails to start and I get the "please report problem..."
Thunderbird fails to start and I get "please report to Mozilla...."
The system tools manager may or may not start. If it does, some of the settings will work, others will hang, turn grey, and then the entire window just disappears. The "Info" is one the simply disappears. I can't get it from the top Menu bar either under my username -> System Info.
If I open a terminal, I can get a few things to run, but most of the time any command I issue (with or without SUDO) will simply give me back the prompt after ten seconds or so.
Gimp will not run - it greys out and I get a failure notice that "something inside 14.04 broke".
Ubuntu Tweak will give me the splash screen, grey out and die.
Now, on bootup, I get "something internal to 14.04 failed" and I am asked to report it. I also see "A new version is availzable...." and before I can enter my password, the box disappears and I am not asked to upgrade again until I log out and back in.
Every app on my Unity bar will fail and I am asked to report the problem, which,of course, fails also.
So, apparently, I don't have the option of UPGRADE and thus save all my apps. I have to completely INSTALL 16.04 cold and wipe everything out.
Is this true or not? Can I recover from whatever it was that whacked my system? I know how to use apt-get, but that doesn't seem to help. Can that be used to do the 16.04 upgrade?
Bill