Thursday, September 19, 2019

Upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 failed

I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 using the update manager. At the end of the upgrade the console said the upgrade had failed and it forced me to restart.


After a restart I am not able to do anything other than logging in. I just see a blue screen with the Ubuntu one icon. I can open applications, but nothing beyond that. I opened the terminal but after that I cannot enter anything - no keyboard input works.


Basically the laptop has been rendered useless. Any pointers on how to recover?


This is on a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop with a 64 bit AMD Sempron Processor.

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