The screenshot was actually taken from a seperate computer that I used to VNC into the one that is actually running the upgrade. It appears the window manager is no longer running, or at least that's what it told me when I try to click the Show Desktop button in the lower left.
The problem I am having is... well, I can't see what the heck that window in the background says because the one up front is in the way and I can't get it to move out of the way. Stranger still is the fact that the window in the background isn't worthy of it's own tab in the bottom panel, so it's not like I can just click on it and bring it up front. I'm not sure what it says, what's it's asking, or why the one in the fore ground is hanging off the edge of the screen. How do I fix this?
Edit: Well, either I've jumped the gun or cut to the chase or whatever you want to call it. I decided to just shut the machine off (via the shutdown menu). WHY??? you ask? Because I couldn't even type a command into the terminal window. The keyboard (I hadn't noticed until now) didn't appear to be functioning at all. Anyway, the system is now totally hosed (I expected this). The desktop fails to load. There's no possible way to get it to somehow pickup where it left off during the upgrade is there? Perhaps something can be typed into a recovery mode accessed terminal?
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