How to Manually Recover Ubuntu 18.04 Broken System Easy Guide

GNU/Linux Ubuntu 18.04 Manually Recovering Broken System Guide

Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How to Manually Recover Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Broken System.

And this Reparation Workflow is Working also in Case of an Ubuntu 18.04 Apt-get/Dpkg “input/output”, “fatal error” and error (2) Issues!

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

1. 1. First Aid Recovering

   First, Try Recover Ubuntu Broken System

   Fixing Ubuntu Broken System

   Ubuntu Fix Broken System.

   The Linked Guide shows you How to Check Up your System Before this Manual Reparation!

2. 2. Discovering Broken Packages

   So on a Shell session
   (Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)
   Ctrl+Alt+t on desktop

   

   Hit Tab to Auto-Complete the Shell Commands…

   In this Case, Triple Check the Commands Before Execution!
   If Got “User is Not in Sudoers file” then see: How to Enable sudo

   Collect a List of the Broken Packages with:

   sudo apt-get -f install

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

3. 3. Copying Packages Status File

   So to Make a Copy of the Packages Status File
   Just in case you’ll be forced to Restore them…

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

4. 4. Editing Packages Status File

   Edit the dpkg “status” File.

   sudo gedit /var/lib/dpkg/status

   Or:

   sudo 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 <kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>
   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>
   
   </kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com>

   Save the File.

5. 5. Recovering System

   Try Again to Repairing System
   Running:

   sudo 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 :)

6. 6. Restoring System

   Only in Case of No Solution then Restore the old “status” File!
   Play:

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

7. 7. Repairing Disk

   How to Repair Disk on Ubuntu GNU/Linux

   Ubuntu Disk Reparation

   Ubuntu Disk Repair