[20:08] <horace> hey guys, anyone out there?
[20:12] <blkperl> horace: hey
[20:28] <horace> totally new to the forum, i'm a ubuntu user for couple of yrs
[20:31] <horace> but, as much as i'd like to say otherwise, i'm a newbie to ubuntu....
[20:31] <horace> tried to upgrade to 13.10 from 13.04 but ran into problem
[20:31] <horace> wonder if anyone could help.....
[20:32] <horace> problem is : in the middle of the upgrade, one of the packages got stuck....
[20:32] <horace> after something like 8 hrs, nothing happened....
[20:32] <horace> and i forced a reboot....
[20:33] <horace> but ubuntu no longer loads.....
[20:36] <horace> for other problems, i used to be able to google search on askubuntu and find a fix pretty quickly
[20:36] <horace> but this one doesn't seem to have any fix......
[20:37] <horace> first, any suggestion?
[20:38] <horace> second, would you guys be available on a consulting basis to help me fix it
[20:38] <nibalizer> whats the problem?
[20:38] <nibalizer> ubuntu dosen't boot any more?
[20:39] <horace> yes, doesn't boot
[20:39] <horace> fyi, i have dual partition with win7 on the other end
[20:40] <horace> i see the grub menu to choose ubuntu, but it drops me into command line,.... nautilus fails
[20:44] <nibalizer> hrm
[20:44] <nibalizer> so what i would do is boot of ubuntu live cd or usb
[20:44] <nibalizer> then go to the 'try ubuntu' mode which will be ubuntu without installing
[20:44] <nibalizer> and copy all my files to a safe place
[20:44] <nibalizer> maybe the win 7 partition
[20:44] <nibalizer> then reinstall
[20:45] <horace> ah ha, that's a good suggestion......let me give it a trial
[20:45] <horace> i boot in with live cd, but tried reinstall then fear i would lose my /home
[20:46] <horace> hey thanks......
[20:46] <nibalizer> np
[20:46] <nibalizer> yea the 'rsync' utility on the command line is graet for doing big network backups
[22:30] <horace> hey guys, just asked a question about recovering from a crash during upgrade
[22:31] <horace> i need to preserve my /home so i don't want a clean re-install
[22:31] <horace> one of you suggested going in wiht a live cd and 'try ubuntu'
[22:32] <horace> then copy my /home to a usb
[22:32] <blkperl> yea
[22:33] <horace> just tried that, but ubuntu complains i do not have permission to copy
[22:33] <horace> what to do?
[22:34] <blkperl> what command are you using
[22:34] <blkperl> put sudo in front of it
[22:35] <horace> just drag & drop in nautilus
[22:35] <blkperl> yeah thats not going to work becuase "try ubuntu" uses the ubuntu user
[22:35] <horace> inside 'try' mode
[22:36] <blkperl> you need to use sudo with rsync or cp -r
[22:36] <horace> how to use rsync?
[22:38] <blkperl> rsync -PHa /old/path /new/path
[22:41] <horace> hey, i'm in 'try' and just did 'sudo cp -r /oldpath /newpath
[22:41] <horace> seems to work...but checking.....
[22:41] <blkperl> cool
[22:42] <horace> hang on......
[22:52] <horace> still have permission issue
[22:53] <horace> so i'm at /home/user level
[22:53] <horace> subfolders are here
[22:53] <horace> i want to copy, say, a subdir inside /home/user/DATA/myfoo
[22:55] <horace> so 'sudo cp -r /DATA/myfoo /usbdrive'
[22:56] <horace> i got 'no such file or directory'
[23:01] <horace> i don't want to copy the whole /DATA because it's huge and has stuff i got copy of
[23:02] <nibalizer> hi horace
[23:02] <nibalizer> so what about sticking a different usb stick in your computer
[23:02] <nibalizer> and copying files to that
[23:14] <horace> i'm not just copying the whole /DATA over to ext HD....taking a long time......but that's ok....
[23:14] <horace> hey, did anyone haev the same problem upgrading from 13.04 to 13.10?
[23:15] <horace> this happened to me couple days ago.....
[23:21] <horace> ....meant to say 'i'm copying the whole /DATA over...'