I have upgraded four of my computers now, but the fifth, a Dell G60, failed spectacularly. During the upgrade, I was seeing "failed to fetch this or that" and messages of that sort. Also, during the install script, I got a few "failed to compile whatever". After the whole thing worked its was down to Reboot - and the machine rebooted - it all went sideways.
What I have now on my screen is a login prompt as if I was at a terminal. Ok, I've seen this before. I can log in, I can run various commands,, but I cannot start any sort of GUI.
I ran the command "sudo apt update" and was told immediately:
"failed to fetch http://ift.tt/2aJPRlc"...[3 .deb packages]..." Temporaryt failure resolving 'us.archive.ubuntu.com'
There are three of these messages.
Also, during all this I am contunually getting:
"[ 623.143639] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through"
"[ 674.854088] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed"
Both of these messages appear periodically with no regard to what I am typing at the time.
I have a suspicion that I will have to start at the absolute beginning and completely reinstall every bit of the operating system and my software again. Fortunately, I make backups, but re-installing all the software will take a while.
Am I better off just wiping the HD and reinstalling 16.04 from a DVD?
Bill
[ubuntu] Upgrade to 16.04 on laptop failed badly
