How to Manually Recover Ubuntu 17.04 Broken System Easy Guide

December 11, 2017 | By thelinuxevangelist | Filed in: Tutorial.

Manually Recover Ubuntu 17.04 Broken System




You are Welcome! The Tutorial Shows You Step-by-Step How-to Manually Recover Ubuntu 17.04 Broken System.

And this Reparation Workflow is Working also in Case of an Ubuntu 17.04 Apt-get/Dpkg “input/output”, “fatal error” and error (2) Issues!

Finally this is an Ultimate Procedure to try to get Recovered your Ubuntu system from a severe Issue.

How to Manually Recover Ubuntu 17.04 Broken System - Featured

  1. First Try Recover Ubuntu Broken System

    Fixing Ubuntu Broken System

    The Linked Guide Shows You How-to Check Up Your System Before this Manual Reparation!

  2. Open Shell session
    (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)
    Ctrl+Alt+t on desktop

    How to Manually Recover Ubuntu 17.04 Broken System - Open Terminal

    Hit Tab to Auto-Complete the Shell Commands…

  3. Login as SuperUser
    Just to Make Shorter the Commands…

    sudo su

    In this Case, Triple Check the Commands Before Execution!
    If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then Look: Solution

  4. Collect a List of the Broken Packages

    apt-get -f install

    Find inside the Output and Take Note of All the Packages that are Misbehaving.

  5. Make a Copy of the Packages status File
    Just in case You’ll forced to Restore it…

    cp /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.bak

  6. Edit the dpkg “status” File

    gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status

    Or:

    nano /var/lib/dpkg/status

    Remove All Blocks Beginning with Package: [myPackageName] and Ended with a Blank Line
    Example:

    Package: libakonadi-kde4
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 3047
Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers 
Architecture: amd64
Source: kdepimlibs
Version: 4:4.13.3-0ubuntu0.1
Replaces: kdepimlibs-data, kdepimlibs5 (<< 4:4.4.0)
Depends: libakonadiprotocolinternals1 (>= 1.11.80), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libkdecore5 (>= 4:4.13.3), libkdeui5 (>= 4:4.13.3), libkio5 (>= 4:4.13.3), libqjson0 (>= 0.7.1), libqt4-dbus (>= 4:4.6.1), libqt4-network (>= 4:4.5.3), libqt4-sql (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.8.0), libsolid4 (>= 4:4.13.3), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6)
Breaks: kdepimlibs-data, kdepimlibs5 (<< 4:4.4.0)
Description: library for using the Akonadi PIM data server
 This is the client access library for using the Akonadi PIM data server.
 .
 This package is part of the KDE Development Platform PIM libraries module.
Homepage: http://pim.kde.org/
Original-Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org>

    Save the File.

  7. Try Again to Repairing System

    apt-get -f install

    If Still New Broken Packages are Showing Up then Repeat the Former Step.
    With a More or Less large dose of Patience Your Ubuntu Should be Successfully and Happily Recovered :)

  8. Only in Case of No Solution then Recover the old "status" File!

    cp /var/lib/dpkg/status.bak /var/lib/dpkg/status

  9. Last to Exit the SuperUser Session:

    exit

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