jaunty upgrade crashed "too many errors"

[Tony Green]

After failing to install a few packages (ca-certificates, java6-jre, java6-bin (already installed & configured)) the installer popped up dialogues telling me again that they'd failed, then crashed.

A large number of packages were left half-installed, so I am attempting to finish them off with dpkg --configure -a, but whether or not I'll have a usable system on reboot I don't currently know; I'll report back here if I have to restore from my backups.

Log files from /var/log/dist-upgrade attached.

System is AMD-64

[Tony Green (ubuntu-beermad-deactivatedaccount)]

Update: dpkg --configure -a also crashes with "too many errors" message. Log attached. I suspect I'm going to have to restore from backups :-(

[Tony Green (ubuntu-beermad-deactivatedaccount)]

Not surprisingly, the system was stuffed on reboot.
A message about not being able to find md5sum was noticed during the early stage of boot, then when X started it just displayed a black screen with a few random patches of colour.

Fortunately I have good backups or I'd be in trouble.

Worrying that this is the second successive Kubuntu upgrade that's caused a completely unusable system and the need to restore from backups to get working...

[Tony Green (ubuntu-beermad-deactivatedaccount)]

Update:
Had another go at this today and it installed successfully. Still had the errors from Java, but the ca-certificates worked this time (new version or something?) so it appears that's where the error came from.

[Rickard Närström (riccetn)]

This is quite old.

The logs indicate this is an upgrade from intrepid to jaunty.

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