Re: [PLUG] After dist_upgrade, kubuntu system won't boot

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Hi Sean

On Saturday 28 October 2006 07:51, sean finney wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 13:38 -0400, Art Alexion wrote:
> > I am getting nowhere with this hald problem.
> > At boot the init script that loads it returns exit code 1
> > Starting from a console using "/etc/init.d/dbus start" returns exit code
> > 2 (script is attached)
> > Starting hald directly with the --verbose=yes parameter returns no error,
> > but completes without loading the daemon.
>
> hrm... how about "sh -x /etc/init.d/dbus start", which should give quite
> a bit of information about what the init script is doing.  i can try
> diffing that against what happens on my system and see if anything
> pops out.

Here's the output

+ set -e
+ DAEMON=/usr/bin/dbus-daemon
+ NAME=dbus
+ DAEMONUSER=messagebus
+ PIDDIR=/var/run/dbus
+ PIDFILE=/var/run/dbus/pid
+ DESC='system message bus'
+ EVENTDIR=/etc/dbus-1/event.d
+ test -x /usr/bin/dbus-daemon
+ . /lib/lsb/init-functions
++ '[' -e /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh ']'
++ . /etc/lsb-base-logging.sh
+ ENABLED=1
+ PARAMS=
+ '[' -e /etc/default/dbus ']'
+ . /etc/default/dbus
++ PARAMS=
++ ENABLED=1
+ test 1 '!=' 0
+ case "$1" in
+ start_it_up
+ '[' '!' -d /var/run/dbus ']'
+ '[' -e /var/run/dbus/pid ']'
++ cat /var/run/dbus/pid
+ PIDDIR=/proc/4512
++ readlink -f /proc/4512/exe
+ '[' -d /proc/4512 -a /usr/bin/dbus-daemon = /usr/bin/dbus-daemon ']'
+ log_success_msg 'system message bus already started; not starting.'
+ log_use_usplash
+ type usplash_write
+ usplash_write 'STATUS system message bus already started; not starting.'
+ echo ' * system message bus already started; not starting.'
 * system message bus already started; not starting.
+ log_daemon_msg 'Starting system message bus' dbus
+ '[' -z 'Starting system message bus' ']'
+ log_use_usplash
+ type usplash_write
+ usplash_write 'TEXT Starting system message bus dbus'
+ log_use_fancy_output
+ TPUT=/usr/bin/tput
+ EXPR=/usr/bin/expr
+ '[' xxterm '!=' xdumb ']'
+ '[' -x /usr/bin/tput ']'
+ '[' -x /usr/bin/expr ']'
+ /usr/bin/tput hpa 60
+ FANCYTTY=1
+ true
+ /usr/bin/tput xenl
++ /usr/bin/tput cols
+ COLS=70
+ '[' 70 ']'
++ /usr/bin/expr 70 - 7
+ COL=63
+ printf ' * Starting system message bus dbus       '
 * Starting system message bus dbus       ++ /usr/bin/expr 70 - 1
+ /usr/bin/tput hpa 69
                                                                     + 
printf ' '
 + start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/dbus/pid --user 
messagebus --exec /usr/bin/dbus-daemon -- --system

>
> > If I can't find a fix over the weekend, I may try a fresh install of
> > Dapper. Problem is, /opt /home and /usr/local are all on the same
> > partition as /.
>
> sadly, that may be the easiest way around the problem.  i guess this is
> one of those side effects of ubuntu's policy to make linux  "for human
> beings" :(
>
> > Suggestions regarding strategy?  I probably have enough HD space on other
> > partitions if need be.
>
> if you have enough space elsewhere, a couple rsync (or tar if you're
> really l33t) calls to move the data there would probably be best.  you
> *can* try installing over the same partition, but then whatever problem
> you're having might remain.  so i wouldn't recommend the latter unless
> you don't have other options.  if you have to do this, you should
> probably boot into the live cd, and nuke off everything but the
> directories you care about before starting installation.

For some reason, [K]ubuntu won't "install" in an existing HD partition.  Fresh 
installs seem to require fresh partitions.  That's why I will have to 
move /home /opt and /usr/local off the HD before a fresh install.  

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