Re: [PLUG] System won't boot after failed upgrade from Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04

[Walt Mankowski via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Thanks, but I'm afraid the time to do this was about 12 hours ago. Now
I'm trying to get it to boot off the Ubuntu install disk I just
flashed to a flash drive. This is also proving to be problematic. I'm
hoping it's because it was formatted as exfat instead of fat, so now
I've reformatted it and I'm reflashing it.

Wish me luck!

On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 08:56:58PM -0400, Rich Mingin (PLUG) via plug wrote:
> Don't overthink it. Boot a friendly live USB (if you use full disk
> encryption, make sure it supports your flavor), fire up any of the
> nicer partition editors, and enlarge usr a bit. Maybe a lot, if you
> have the disk space for it. I think pretty much every filesystem
> supports offline resize *up*, some like XFS don't support resizing
> *down*, so that might be an issue, but once you have enough space, you
> should be able to boot and apt install --fix-broken or chroot and do
> same.
> 
> I know it's barn door after horses come home, but I always try to make
> sure I have plenty of free space, especially on /usr, when I'm
> performing a large upgrade on Debian/Ubuntu based systems.
> 
> On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM Walt Mankowski via plug
> <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> >
> > (I posted a version of this email to ubuntu-users a short time
> > ago. Hopefully with the collected knowledge of them and PLUG I can
> > recover my system!)
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to upgrade my desktop box from Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04 today and
> > it failed. It ran out of disk space on /usr midway through the
> > install, leaving things in a weird state. I was able to run `apt
> > upgrade` and install a large number of packages, but several 100 more
> > were still in a state where they were being held. I tried doing
> > another `apt do-release-upgrade`, but by that point it thought it was
> > already on 24.04 and so it returned immediately.
> >
> > At this point I tried rebooting to see if that would clear things up,
> > That was a mistake. Not it's not booting up. If gets pretty far into
> > the boot process then fails. The messages scroll off the screen and I
> > can't see all of them.. The last one says
> >
> > Failed to start svscan.service - Daemontools service scanner.
> > See 'systemctl status svscan.service' for details.
> >
> > (I can't get to a login prompt so I can't actually run that command to
> > see details.)
> >
> > Above that I see that dbus.service failed to start. And above that I
> > see a bunch of failed dependencies for half a dozen SSSD responder
> > sockets. I'm not able to scroll up beyond that.
> >
> > I do nightly backups so with any luck I haven't lost any data. Is
> > there any way I can get back in there in single user mode and have it
> > finish the upgrade to 24.04? Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> >
> > Walt
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