Need help to recover from last LMDE update

[tulup]

Hello,

can anybody point me to figure out what is go wrong after downloading and installing new 1290 packages (1,3Gb) with last update.
last thing i remembered, it was installing all updates, i went off.
when i came back, computer was restarted, there is some error msg.
after login, it seems there is no theme - no icons, images, i can't run anything in GUI.
don't know how to run terminal in that state, no shortcuts, no "start" button, only x appears instead of it.
can only open Computer - Filesystem free space is 11.6Gb

so, what is it, how to recover from this state?

[zerozero]

Q1: you still have net in that system?
Q2: can open (and is functional) the terminal?
if yes provide us the output of

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inxi -r

and we'll go from there

[tulup]

Q2: can open (and is functional) the terminal?

don't know how to run terminal in that state, no shortcuts, no "start" button, only x appears instead of it.

ctrl+alt+f1 see tty1
typing my account credentials (during login typo see some strange chars), can't login to run mc etc.

Q1: you still have net in that system?

how to check it? i don't know exactly are there net or not, the desktop is not functional at all, no icons in tray.
i can only open Computer, home folder and that is all.

[tulup]

i'll make a couple of photos of monitor and try to show it later.

[zerozero]

if you can open home folder probably you can also right-click and open terminal here

[tulup]

inxi -r

Repos: active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest testing main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/security testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://debian.linuxmint.com/latest/multimedia testing main non-free

Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main

[zerozero]

ok, i see that you have access to the terminal, good and your sources.list look ok as well
first of all try

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sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

(here watch for any kind of errors that might pop up, if the last prompt is not 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. you might have to run

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sudo apt-get -f install

(probably you'll see some packages being installed or any kind of errors: those are important) run again the dist-upgrade command.

report back.

[tulup]

apt-get update tells me that it was interrrupted, and need to continue manualy using dpkg --configure -a
it helps and now we are finished with this update and problem.
thank you.