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

["Will Dyson" <will.dyson@gmail.com>]

On 11/30/06, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Thursday 30 November 2006 12:54, sean finney wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:25 -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
> > > I tried this.  Hald still stalled and failed, and I still have 48 serial
> > > ports.
>
>
> > just another shot in the dark, but if udev wasn't mounting it's
> > temporary filesystem, you might find yourself working on the underlying
> > flatfile /dev filesystem, which might cause problems with hal (it'd also
> > explain the large number of non-existant devices).
>
> A bad situation grows worse...
>
> I gave it a shot installing a new kernel.  Instead of a solution, udev
> messages started pouring through the console at boot up and eventually
> stalled.  I think.
>
> I tried other kernels on the grub menu.  They were not compatible with the
> current installation and failed to boot as per the beginning of this thread.
> I booted from the live/install disc (where hal loaded fine) and did a
> uname -a
>
> I removed all of the kernels and installed only the kernel that was on the
> Live CD,  The live CD used the 386, rather than 686 kernel.  Seems the
> problem persists with the 386 kernel when I install it.  I now have only
> 2.6.15-26-686 and 2.6.15-26-386 installed.  There is a 2.6.15-27-686
> available, but 2.6.15-26-386 was what was successfully booting the CD.

> Does this info help at all?  Want a copy of dmesg?

Can't hurt. What I'd really like to see is:

1) Dmesg and 'ls /sys/class/tty/ttyS*' from the live cd boot.
2) The Dmesg from the regular system.

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Will Dyson
http://www.lucidts.com/
Linux/Mac/Win consulting
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