A bug in tasksel caused me too loose all programs is there a way to recover

tkmsr · 05-15-2010, 02:48 PM

I removed 'print-server' from tasksel and it removed the entire ubuntu-desktop and all it's dependencies (basically all the GUI apps). It looked the same as if / got removed.
Is there a way to recover it.
I looked at following page it says it is a bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...el/+bug/150252
When this was happening I pressed Ctrl+C in between.
And I am able to go to command prompt of run level 5 by pressing Ctrl+alt+f1

AlucardZero · 05-15-2010, 03:26 PM

install ubuntu-desktop?

tkmsr · 05-16-2010, 01:16 AM

I had tried the same before asking it.I am getting error number 100.aptitude fails.

AlucardZero · 05-16-2010, 08:33 AM

paste the entire error here

tkmsr · 05-17-2010, 04:35 AM

I open tasksel and select Ubuntu desktop to install I get

Code:

tasksel: aptitude failed (100)

After that I executed
dpkg --configure -a
I got following error

Code:

ldconfig deferred processing now taking place.

craigevil · 05-17-2010, 05:54 AM

apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

paste the full output of any error messages