I repeated this today with Ubuntu GNOME i386 and indeed the GUI part of things is fixed. Still failed though just as you said the first error reported was:
dpkg: error processing package fontconfig (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
But the process continued for quite a while then finally offered to file a bug report but the upgrade was still running so I waited, then finally a warning showed saying:
Could not install the upgrades
The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).
After clicking on Close dpkg ran for quite a while and then finally came the black screen. Nothing was responsive so I forced a reboot and not surprisingly it fails to boot now.
I didn't mess around trying to recover this time though so the logs are much simpler to attach. I'll begin that now. There are six in total I'll attach the 1st here.
I repeated this today with Ubuntu GNOME i386 and indeed the GUI part of things is fixed. Still failed though just as you said the first error reported was:
dpkg: error processing package fontconfig (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
But the process continued for quite a while then finally offered to file a bug report but the upgrade was still running so I waited, then finally a warning showed saying:
Could not install the upgrades
The upgrade has aborted. Your system could be in an unusable state. A recovery will run now (dpkg --configure -a).
After clicking on Close dpkg ran for quite a while and then finally came the black screen. Nothing was responsive so I forced a reboot and not surprisingly it fails to boot now.
I didn't mess around trying to recover this time though so the logs are much simpler to attach. I'll begin that now. There are six in total I'll attach the 1st here.