stuck during upgrade 6>7, lost session

[cwmcd]

yes yes, i fell for the old 'starting an upgrade in the gui console and lost session' trap.....

so the server was in the middle of an install and i switched away and of course lost the session, so the server is currently sitting somewhere in the middle of the install.

i know enough to be able to use putty to ssh back in and get connected, but now i don't really know what to do.

i've looked over some forum posts and found something that said to do a ps faxl and look for apt, which i've done but now i'm stuck......

any chance someone might take mercy on my ignorance and help me recover/restart this install?

thanks in advance...

 

[spirit]

try

killall -9 apt
killall -9 dpkg

dpkg --configure -a
apt -f install
apt dist-upgrade

 

[cwmcd]

try

killall -9 apt
killall -9 dpkg

dpkg --configure -a
apt -f install
apt dist-upgrade

ty ty, this totally worked to get me back on track.

ran the commands, rebooted when done, spun up my vms', all looks good! (and i can control my house again )

thank you so much for the help!