update: just to make it clear, it was not the upgrade that messed up things. I was trying to reinstall the tz-brasil package because my system was not accepting the right time, then the packaging management system broke. From my previous experience, I went to fsck the filesystem, and found problems reading it. Rebooting it caused major failures – error 17 according to grub – and with a help from a live cd, I fsck the fs and it was entirely messed up. So, this is was what left of my system – lucky me this time I had my /home in a different partition:
\# ls lost+found/
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root@ubuntu:/mnt#
See that? That is called “why I will need to make ANOTHER fresh installation of Ubuntu” . No, I’m not blaming it, I believe it is the hard disk. But that is *&&%$##@@#$!)!(@&$^ annoying, it is.
Sulamita,
I posted something to upgrade Ubuntu through an easy way:
http://vulcano.mine.nu/blog/index.php/2007/10/18/actualizando-a-gusty-gibbon/
Cheers and good luck!
Thanks Miguel, but I think you misunderstood it. There is no system to upgrade… the filesystem crashed again, so all I have are those lost directories at /lost+found…
Sulamita,
I talked about it as example to others who want to upgrade their Ubuntu; sometimes “apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade” doesn’t work properly and you can get many errors.
Cheers!
PS: my /lost+found directory is empty 🙂