Comments on: How to Fix broken Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

By: Ceezey

Ceezey — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:33:25 +0000

Thank you - the resolve.conf bit did the trick for me!

By: Jt

Jt — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:10:44 +0000

Thank you, very much for this. I just used these instructions to rescue an install of Lucid.

By: matey

matey — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 16:15:48 +0000

Used to put this in sources.list file and make it work;

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security multiverse

By: 80aless

80aless — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:31:47 +0000

Hi,
any news? Is it possible to do
apt-get install somepackages
offline, getting the packages from the live cd?
Alex

By: Jim Tanis

Jim Tanis — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:54:36 +0000

I had a similar problem with IBEX . I tried some of the above, but have no internet connection on the problem computer, and the procedure above does not work for me. I was interupted while doing an upgrade from HARDY to IBEX

If I go to the restore function, and do the DPKG thing, it errors out after several tries. I think if I could get the internet that might work, but I am not sure how to get connected.

Ideas? Or is this thread dead?

Thanks! Jim Tanis

By: Art Peck

Art Peck — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:01:10 +0000

My problem is that I can’t seem to get a desktop (GDM) after login. The system boots fine, I get the Ubuntu login screen, I login fine but then all I get is blank, yellow (brown?) screen with a mouse pointer outlined in white. I can move the mouse pointer so I suspect that the Xserver is running fine. If I run top it will usually show ~ 73 processes, 1 running (top of course) and 72 sleeping! What the heck for? I want’em awake doing what they are supposed to do!

ANY debug tips, RTFMs, anything at this point would be greatly appreciated. It does work sometimes, which encourages me to keep trying!

Art

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 01 May 2007 02:51:31 +0000

my root drive is an lvm partition, and the ubuntu live cd doesn’t seem to have lvm. any tips?

By: Carl Goodwin

Carl Goodwin — Tue, 01 May 2007 01:17:25 +0000

My story:

What happened:
Synaptic upgrade Edgy->Feisty
Hanged towards the end
Couldn’t boot on restart

Workaround:
Rebooted
Hit ESC to interrupt grub
Selected on older kernel in recovery mode
System booted to text interface as usual
apt-get update
(Actually it make me use dpkg but it worked anyway)
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
Rebooted
Feisty goodness

Maybe I got lucky, but I hope it helps.

By: James Valentine

James Valentine — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:04:37 +0000

This would work great if my install hadn’t been ruined to the extent that everything (including su) segfaults. The install must have crashed when replacing a major library, I suppose. Over to the forums, I think!

Cheers for this, though! I’ll following when my system is actually well enough to be repaired…

By: dimeotane

dimeotane — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:36:09 +0000

silly me, I had mounted the wrong partition. =p
this is exactly what I needed to fix my bOrked feisty upgrade
My laptop went to sleep during the install and messed it up!

By: dimeotane

dimeotane — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:30:01 +0000

Sound like just what I need, but it can’t find “su”

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo chroot /media/feisty su
chroot: cannot run command `su’: No such file or directory

By: vertti

vertti — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:12:34 +0000

Thanks, saved my day!

--v

By: www.tipshack.com

www.tipshack.com — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:58:45 +0000

Keep this handy if you are installing Feisty….

You will probably not need this since your installation will be going so well. But a friend who is new to Ubuntu might. Be the hero and show them this to help them get out of a sticky mess….