peterdm
November 8th, 2013, 05:46 PM
I recently upgraded 13.04 to 13.10, but the upgrade broke down about 2/3rd of the way because there was not enough space in /boot.
I remembered that /boot is a separate (small) partition, and it got filled up with lots of old kernel images.
I cleaned up the old kernel images, hoping I could just redo/continue de upgrade afterwards, but no sigar.
I believe the reason to be that Ubuntu thinks it's already on 13.10 (it says so everywhere).
At this point, my system works, but I get several error dialogs after I login. I have the impression this is caused by a mixture of upgraded and non-upgraded packages.
The update manager thinks there is nothing to upgrade. For over a week... I find that very suspicious.
Then I wanted to repair the broken installation from the live cd: I burnt image ubuntu-13.10-desktop-amd64.iso.
It kernel panics upon boot, so that's also a dead end.
Finally my question: how can I convince my system to redo the upgrade all over again, _without_ using a live cd?
I remembered that /boot is a separate (small) partition, and it got filled up with lots of old kernel images.
I cleaned up the old kernel images, hoping I could just redo/continue de upgrade afterwards, but no sigar.
I believe the reason to be that Ubuntu thinks it's already on 13.10 (it says so everywhere).
At this point, my system works, but I get several error dialogs after I login. I have the impression this is caused by a mixture of upgraded and non-upgraded packages.
The update manager thinks there is nothing to upgrade. For over a week... I find that very suspicious.
Then I wanted to repair the broken installation from the live cd: I burnt image ubuntu-13.10-desktop-amd64.iso.
It kernel panics upon boot, so that's also a dead end.
Finally my question: how can I convince my system to redo the upgrade all over again, _without_ using a live cd?