How to Manually Recover Ubuntu 17.04 Broken System Easy Guide
December 11th, 2017 by thelinuxevangelistManually Recover Ubuntu 17.04 Broken System
You are Welcome! This 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.

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First Try Recover Ubuntu Broken System
The Linked Guide Shows You How-to Check Up Your System Before this Manual Reparation!
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Open Shell session
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)
Ctrl+Alt+t on desktopHit Tab to Auto-Complete the Shell Commands…
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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 -
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.
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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
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Edit the dpkg “status” File
gedit /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.
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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 :) -
Only in Case of No Solution then Recover the old "status" File!
cp /var/lib/dpkg/status.bak /var/lib/dpkg/status
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Last to Exit the SuperUser Session:
exit
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