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When I boot my notebook, the touch-pad and the keyboard don't respond. The last thing I did before shutting down was killing the terminal that was running a sudo apt-get install because I had to go.

I tried to follow the Start Ubuntu in recovery mode

but the second screen (Select the root shell option ) does not appear in my computer, it runs some process and then it freezes

I have the ubuntu liveCD and I can mount my hard drive from there but I'm not sure what commands to run from there.

Thanks in advance for any help.

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Hernantz
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You can try to chroot into your system from the live CD and continue the upgrade.

  1. Run the live CD and start a gnome-terminal (Alt + F2 → gnome-terminal).

  2. Issue the following command to mount your system (change sda1 to whatever your system partition name is - the output of the command fdisk -l should give you an idea):

    sudo mkdir /mnt/ubuntu
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ubuntu

  3. You need to bind a couple of local directories to the chroot environment:

    for i in proc sys dev; do sudo mount --bind /$i /mnt/ubuntu/$i; done

  4. Enable DNS resolving in the chroot environment (should give you internet access):

    sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/ubuntu/etc/resolv.conf

  5. Now it's time to get into your broken system (note, that you will be the almighty root user in the system, so be careful what you do):

    sudo chroot /mnt/ubuntu

  6. Try to continue the update:

    apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

    You'll maybe told to also try

    apt-get -f install

    If that fails you can also try to continue the configuration of unpacked packages:

    dpkg --configure -a

  7. After you've tampered with the system, you type exit to leave your system and then do the above steps in reverse order:

    sudo rm /mnt/ubuntu/etc/resolv.conf
sudo umount /mnt/ubuntu/dev
sudo umount /mnt/ubuntu/sys
sudo umount /mnt/ubuntu/proc
sudo umount /mnt/ubuntu

  8. Reboot without the CD and hope for the best.

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