| Art Alexion on 29 Nov 2006 14:34:49 -0000 |
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On Tuesday 28 November 2006 14:40, Will Dyson wrote: > On 11/24/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote: > > On Thursday 23 November 2006 16:27, Will Dyson wrote: > > > > Yeah, it looks like hal's behavior here is, if not correct, then at > > > > least what it always does. > > > > > Your kernel really thinks you have 48 serial ports. This is quite > bizarre, and I believe it is the root cause of your problem. > > Hald's poor handling of serial devices turns a minor annoyance into a > boot failure, but neither it nor udev seem to be misconfigured. > > You should file a bug against ubuntu's kernel. > > > > > If you want to know where those extra device files are coming from, > > > > you can set udev_log="debug" in /etc/udev/udev.conf and then restart > > > > the system and look in the syslog. > > > > > > > > Otherwise, just reinstalling udev should probably do it. > > > > I can't remember if I did this. I am doing it again. Will reboot after > > completed and follow up. > > In light of the above, I don't think that even a clean install of Edgy > will solve the problem, since the problem is in the kernel (which does > not have any configuration files to get messed up during the upgrade > process). > > What might help is updating the BIOS on your laptop, since the > BIOS-provided ACPI tables are the most likely source of the bizarre > bogus serial ports. Grrr. Vendors.... > > Try booting with acpi=off as a first step. I think we are getting closer to the solution. The dist-upgrade went badly. Lots of things were deleted and not upgraded. One of the things was the kernel. It would not boot. Here is the original problem description: > I put this upgrade off for a while; just had a feeling > it would go badly. > > Originally ubuntu warty from CD. 6-10 months later, > upgraded via 'apt-get dist_upgrade' to hoary. 6-10 > months later, upgraded via 'apt-get dist_upgrade' to > breezy. All well but, edgy out, so I thought the bugs > were out of dapper. > > This time 'apt-get dist_upgrade' was stubborn. Had > to manually remove some packages and run 'apt-get -f > install' many times, then install "held back" packages > with 'apt-get install <held_back_packagename>'. Then > had to manually run apt-get install kubuntu_desktop. > Finally looked like all was well. > > But now won't complete init. > > System will boot from /dev/hda gets to initializing > root file system in graphical boot screen, then falls > to char mode with many Segment Faults! and finally > complains that /dev/hda2 (root file system partition) > does not exist and I get a default prompt with few > built in commands. > > When booting from Kubuntu or Knoppix live CDs > everything is OK on hda2. Sean Finney gave me the solution to completing init was > i'd start with reinstalling some of the packages involved in the first > steps of a bootup. specifically: > > - your kernel (linux-image-2.6-686 or similar) > - your bootloader > - your init subsystemsystem > - ubuntu-standard > > if you haven't had to do it before, it's not to hard to get into your > system to make these changes by doing the following: > > - boot off a rescue cd / installer cd > - mount your root filesystem onto something like /target > - chroot /target > - mount -a (make sure /proc and /sys get mounted) > - do your stuff > - unmount all your filesystems > - reboot. I still had problems > > - boot off a rescue cd / installer cd > > Done. OK > > > - mount your root filesystem onto something like > > /target > > Done. OK > > > - chroot /target > > Done. OK > > > - mount -a (make sure /proc and /sys get mounted) > > Done. OK > > > - do your stuff > > This is where I have a problem. > > sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.12-10-686 > > gets me > > sudo: unable to lookup ubuntu via gethostbyname() > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > linux-image-2.6.12-10-686 is already the newest > version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not > upgraded. Sean offered more advice and it worked > On Saturday 07 October 2006 17:53, sean finney wrote: > > for the kernel, looks like you're trying to install an older kernel > > which isn't in dapper. try linux-image-686. wrt your question about > > init, you probably want sysvinit > > I succeeded in installing a newer kernel, and was able to boot before > reinstalling sysvinit. This is when the insoluble hald problem emerged. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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