Walt Mankowski via plug on 26 May 2024 17:22:45 -0700


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


Update -- I did a little Googling today and I found the solution to
one of my problems. Both my keyboard and the flash drive need to be
plugged into normal non-usb3 ports for them to be detected by the boot
loader.

I still haven't fixed anything, but at least now I'm able to load
Ubuntu 24.04 very slowly!

Walt

On Sun, May 26, 2024 at 06:57:55AM -0400, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> Good idea. I'd try that, if only it would let me get into the bios menu!
> 
> Sigh.
> 
> On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 10:56:38PM -0400, Rachel plays Linux via plug wrote:
> > You may need to turn off secure boot in the bios un order to boot from the
> > USB stick.
> > 
> > On Sat, May 25, 2024, 9:59 PM Walt Mankowski via plug <
> > plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Nope, still not working.
> > >
> > > So I've made a supposedly bootable Ubuntu USB stick using the official
> > > Ubuntu instructions at
> > >
> > > https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-macos#1-overview
> > >
> > > I plugged it into the back of my case and rebooted.
> > >
> > > When it starts the boot process, I bang on F12 to get into the boot
> > > menu.
> > >
> > > I tell it to boot from a USB-HDD. It still boots up from the internal
> > > HDD.
> > >
> > > So then I adjusted a few things. I unplugged my backup drive, which is
> > > also an external USB HDD. I unplugged my keyboard from the hub and
> > > plugged it directly into the case, in the spot where the backup drive
> > > was.
> > >
> > > Now it won't even go into the boot menu anymore! It completely ignores
> > > my taps on F12 (also DEL, which goes into the BIOS menu) and starts
> > > booting up.
> > >
> > > I'm out of things to try and ready to just go buy a new box. Anyone
> > > have suggestions on other things to try?
> > >
> > > Walt
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 09:37:41PM -0400, Walt Mankowski via plug wrote:
> > > > 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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