The failed upgrade had been recovered with an apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade. I *think* what may have happened is that I started the automatic upgrade early in the morning and went to work, by about 10pm it had finally downloaded all the DEBs and got to the point where the update manager starts asking questions about "do you accept the license of sun java" or "adobe flash" or whatever third party apps. *HOWEVER*, I'd gone to bed and so it sat at this prompt from 10pm until about 11am the next day.
...meanwhile, the automatic midnight/daily equivalent of "apt-get update; apt-get -d dist-upgrade; apt-get autoclean" had downloaded some replacement DEBs for ones that the (still running) update manager was expecting. When I hit "ok" for the installer it could no longer find the DEBs because they'd been cleaned out of the local spool directory. Current status of the machine is that it is running, and in GNOME (failsafe). Beryl compiz is no longer working (it was working under feisty). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. -- package metacity 1:2.19.55-0ubuntu1 failed to install/upgrade: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/131719 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
