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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?

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

zerozero wrote: 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.

zerozero wrote: 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.

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

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

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

ok, i see that you have access to the terminal, good and your sources.list look ok as well
first of all try (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 (probably you'll see some packages being installed or any kind of errors: those are important) run again the dist-upgrade command.

report back.

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.