Re: [PLUG] salvaging an ubuntu upgrade

["Andrew Tsen" <kloaker@gmail.com>]

Is your /etc/hosts there?  If so, what's in it?



On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
> Long story short:
>
>  Doing a gutsy->hardy upgrade on a laptop using the do-release-upgrade command
>  that worked so well on other machines.  Power went out.  Battery was charged.
>  Packages had been downloaded. Installation continued.  But...
>
>  When I picked up the laptop to move it, the battery fell out.  Never mind that
>  I can never get this battery out when I need to.  This critical time, it just
>  fell out.
>
>  re-running do-release-upgrade didn't work because it thought it was already
>  upgraded to hardy.  aptitude dist-upgrade failed, suggesting
>  dpkg --configure -a.  This worked until it got to kde-theme-somethingorother.
>  aptitude install kde-theme-somethingorother wanted to remove about 22
>  packages.  I listed them and let it. Then ran an aptitude dist-upgrade.
>
>  Everything looks fine, except one thing.
>
>  Whenever I try to run anything as sudo it hestiates, then reports
>  sudo: unable to resolve host <localhostname>
>
>  /etc/hostname is correct
>  the networkmanager seems to have the host correctly.
>
>  What would I edit to fix this?
>
>
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