Need some suggestions on a borked upgrade

[Bruce Labitt]

Ok.  Seemed to have lost the ability to log into x.

I can login.  I ran the command and it created the log file.  How do you mount a usb stick when you don't know its name?  Then I can copy the file.

It's getting to the point of removing the drive, copying /home and doing a new installation.  

Bruce 

> On May 10, 2015, at 21:17, Jeffry Smith <jsmith at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> The -f flag tells apt to try and fix errors.
> 
> I run Debian. Sometimes either "apt-get -f install" works.  Also,  running "dpkg --configure -a" (which tells dpkg to try & configure all the partially installed packages) will unbork it.  Without seeing the exact error,  I also can't give you better advice.
> 
>> On May 10, 2015 9:08 PM, "David Rysdam" <david at rysdam.org> wrote:
>> Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at hackerposse.com> writes:
>> > Can you run "apt-get install -f 2>&1 | tee apt-errors.log"
>> 
>> OT, but why not just:
>> 
>>     apt-get install > apt-errors.log 2>&1
>> 
>> ?
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