Ok, I broke some things. Help.

[zuperxtreme]

I was upgrading to 8.1 alpha 6 of Ubuntu.

And my PC decided to shut down. Maybe I pulled a cord. I don't know.

I started the update manager again, but now it could only do a partial upgrade. I said fuck it and let it run.

It finished. I rebooted.

Now:

emerald isn't working, so I'm back at metacity

synaptic package manager doesn't open

I still get a notification for upgrades, but it doesn't want to. It either freezes or just doesn't open.

sudo doesn't recognize me. The Host. "sudo: unable to resolve host max-desktop"

My /etc/hosts says:

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 max-desktop.WORKGROUP

So that should be working, right?

Aptitude works from the command line, I might just give that a shot and try to fix it, in the mean time, can anyone help?


PS. This is a work machine.

EDIT: Ok, I got aptitude to upgrade everything and I removed broken packages. Maybe that'll help.

Another thing that it won't let me do is open folders. ;O

EDIT2: Ok, everything is semi-working now. But fuck this alpha. I'm going back to 7.1 ...

[Prometheum]

This is why we don't use alpha.

[zuperxtreme]

Originally Posted by Prometheum

This is why we don't use alpha.

Specially at a work PC.

[Zok]

Originally Posted by Prometheum

This is why we don't use alpha.

Beat me to it. Alphas are alphas for a reason.