| Steve Litt via plug on 26 May 2024 20:44:14 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] System won't boot after failed upgrade from Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04 |
Hi Walt, It sounds like UEFI problems I've had in the past. If you're sure your thumb drive boots UEFI and you're sure your hard drive boots UEFI, perhaps disable legacy mode and in the bios boot drive order remove all USB except that thumb drive. Or, sometimes you need to enable legacy mode. And for gosh sakes, disable "Secure boot". Another move might be to find your motherboard's documentation and find out how to reset it to factory defaults, and start from there. Perhaps disconnect and reconnect the mobo's battery also. I've found modern UEFI setups to be exercises in trial and error. And I wouldn't recommend a new computer, because it might have even worse problems. In my opinion, UEFI was an excruciatingly bad way to do a good thing, and I wish it was never invented. In this day of RAID, LPM and bind mounts, I think having 4 major partitions and 4 minor partitions is plenty good enough. SteveT Steve Litt Autumn 2023 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 Walt Mankowski via plug said on Sat, 25 May 2024 21:59:03 -0400 >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 >> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >> > > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >> > > http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - >> > > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> > > General Discussion -- >> > > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > ___________________________________________________________________________ >> > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >> > http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - >> > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> > General Discussion -- >> > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >> http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - >> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General >> Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >___________________________________________________________________________ >Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - >http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General >Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug