Ubuntu
update-manager package

Update to edgy ruins machine

Bug #68848 reported by LCID Fire
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update-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I attemted to update a computer of mine from dapper to edgy via the update-notifier. It let it run a few hours. When I came back the machine was on - but not reacting to any input. So I hard resetted it and when I now try to boot edgy I get a Kernel panic: Not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0).

Tags: edgy-upgrade
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LCID Fire (lcid-fire) wrote :

Problem was that no config was made and the new kernel was not setup in ramfs. So I booted up an old kernel - did a config of the packages and voila - the new kernel boots.
The big issue is that the computer didn't react anymore - probably due to some kind of xserver problem (I assume) and a normal user will have pretty much problems sorting that out...

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

Can you please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ to this bugreport? So that I can diagnose what went wrong?

Thanks,
 Michael

Changed in update-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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LCID Fire (lcid-fire) wrote :
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Meg Kurdziolek (meg-kurdziolek) wrote :

I am having a very similar problem. Edgy wasn't booting at all and was completely unresponsive. I was able to boot up using an older version of the kernel. (I thought it could be initial ram disk problems?)

I'm relatively unexperienced and I don't know what you mean by "config of the packages" What exactly did you do to get it to work from the new kernel?
Thanks.

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Meg Kurdziolek (meg-kurdziolek) wrote :

Forget my previous question, I figured it out.

Just running "dpkg --configure -a" fixed the problem and I was able to use the most recent kernel.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for update-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

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