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Yesterday I upgraded from ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 14.04 using the update manager. Everything went smoothly. But when I restarted my laptop, it went till the login screen and as i entered my password, it prompted an error

Failed to start session

I read in some blogs and even tried to use sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a, but even that failed with some errors. I feel it does not connect to the Internet through my router when I use the recovery mode.

Can someone please help me. I have lot of data in there and don't want to install a fresh copy of ubuntu 14.04. I am using a Dell Studio 1555 laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon 4500 HD graphic card.

I ran the following command

$ sudo dpkg --configure -a

Output: dpkg: error: unable to access dpkg status area: Read-only file system

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  • Please run sudo dpkg --configure -a and post the output inside your question. – Danatela Apr 22 '14 at 04:07
  • please have a look to this question seems the same issue

    http://askubuntu.com/questions/450567/failed-to-start-session-after-interrupted-upgrade-to-14-04

     – Fat Mind Apr 22 '14 at 06:51
  • Hi friends. Thank you so much :). The problem got solved using the link provided by mohtaw. Thankyou once again!! – user272269 Apr 22 '14 at 18:22

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