cdcooper
May 4th, 2010, 10:54 AM
I need help recovering a partial upgrade to Lucid.
4 core Xeon , was running 64 bit 9.10.
Upgrading over the weekend, but it failed, and suggested running dpkg-reconfigure -a
I couldn't launch any terminal/xterm windows, and couldn't login via ssh (kicked me out with xmalloc failure) or through a virtual console (showed garbled characters)
So I had to reboot.
Now the boot process -- I've tried recovery mode for all othe kernels I've got installed, but all fail in the same way:
Begin: Starting AppArmor profiles...
bash: xmalloc: ../bash/locale.c:73: cannot allotate 225469542417 bytes (0 bytes allocated)
Failure: AppArmor profiles failed to load.
Done.
init: Error while reading from descriptor: Bad file descriptor
init: hwclock main process (447) terminated with status 2
init: plymouth main process (446) terminated with status 2
[ 11.782252] hostname[445]: segfault at blah ip 00000000040139d sp blah error 7 in hostname[400000+3000]
init: hostname main process (445) killed by SEGV signal
bash: xmalloc: ../bash/locale.x:73: cannot allocate 225469542417 bytes (0 bytes allocated)
...
more xmalloc failures
...
init: mountall-shell post-stop process (453) terminated with status 2
It looks like it might be a libc problem. At any rate, I'd like to get into a recovery console to restart the update.
Any suggestions gratefully received
4 core Xeon , was running 64 bit 9.10.
Upgrading over the weekend, but it failed, and suggested running dpkg-reconfigure -a
I couldn't launch any terminal/xterm windows, and couldn't login via ssh (kicked me out with xmalloc failure) or through a virtual console (showed garbled characters)
So I had to reboot.
Now the boot process -- I've tried recovery mode for all othe kernels I've got installed, but all fail in the same way:
Begin: Starting AppArmor profiles...
bash: xmalloc: ../bash/locale.c:73: cannot allotate 225469542417 bytes (0 bytes allocated)
Failure: AppArmor profiles failed to load.
Done.
init: Error while reading from descriptor: Bad file descriptor
init: hwclock main process (447) terminated with status 2
init: plymouth main process (446) terminated with status 2
[ 11.782252] hostname[445]: segfault at blah ip 00000000040139d sp blah error 7 in hostname[400000+3000]
init: hostname main process (445) killed by SEGV signal
bash: xmalloc: ../bash/locale.x:73: cannot allocate 225469542417 bytes (0 bytes allocated)
...
more xmalloc failures
...
init: mountall-shell post-stop process (453) terminated with status 2
It looks like it might be a libc problem. At any rate, I'd like to get into a recovery console to restart the update.
Any suggestions gratefully received