lost power during upgrade

[foxcar]

I was upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 and my laptop lost power. I couldn't log back in, it froze after I entered my password and hit enter. How can I recover from this?

I already tried "sudo do-release-updgrade" from the cmd line in recovery mode but it couldn't find a new release.

[daark.child]

If you can get into recovery mode and can edit the files in /etc, edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change any instances of intrepid to jaunty. After that do

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

That should finish the upgrade for you.

[foxcar]

When I try to update it cannot resolve the websites. I also noticed that "jaunty" is part of the URLs that I am "unable to resolve." Maybe that is an issue?

Looks like I might not have network access in recovery mode? I can't even ping my router.

[reed9]

What kind of internet connection do you have? I don't think networkmanager will run when you enter recovery mode, so you'd need to connect manually to the network.

[foxcar]

I have dsl. I am currently connected to my modem/router with a lan cable.

[reed9]

Hmm, usually wired autoconnects. Check ifconfig and see if you have an ip adress, then try running

sudo dhclient eth0

[foxcar]

dhclient got me connected. I ran the update and upgrade commands and they seemed to work but i am still running 8.10. However, upon rebooting i was able to get logged in and now i using update manager to upgrade, so far so good.