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Bisneff
July 23rd, 2014, 11:03 AM
Hi everyone.

I'm writting from my Acer N550-JV with Ubuntu 12.04 . I can now be here only because I've booted with a previous kernel version ( 3.8.0-42). Back in time, I faced those problems:

A couple of days ago, doing system updates, I came into this problem (http://askubuntu.com/questions/493541/hardware-enablement-stack-hwe-out-of-support). Since the warning message was quite annoying, I choose to go ahead and try a workaround. The first thing I do was to follow the procedure in the first comment, so I run:

(1)

sudo apt-get install -V libglapi-mesa-lts-trusty libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-trusty xserver-xorg-lts-trusty xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-trusty xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-trusty libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-trusty x11-xserver-utils-lts-trusty libglapi-mesa-lts-trusty:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-trusty:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-trusty:i386 libgles2-mesa-lts-trusty libglapi-mesa-lts-trusty mesa-vdpau-drivers-lts-trusty


After that, my system was able to do upgrade, I was very happy, Ubuntu was very happy and the whole world seemed a better place. After reboot for complete upgrade I notice that my kernel was upgraded (really? è_é) from 3.8.0-42 to 3.13.0-32 . What's the matter? When I select the grub option the screen became black and wont go further.

Come on, I just need to boot with a previous kernel, remove the new kernel and boot again.

Yesterday I do this, boot with 3.8.0-42 . The list of my kernel was like:

dpkg --list | grep linux-image
ii linux-image-3.13.0-32-generic 3.13.0-32.57~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.13.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-29-generic 3.8.0-29.42~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-34-generic 3.8.0-34.49~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-35-generic 3.8.0-35.52~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-36-generic 3.8.0-36.52~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-37-generic 3.8.0-37.53~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-38-generic 3.8.0-38.56~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-39-generic 3.8.0-39.58~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-41-generic 3.8.0-41.60~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-42-generic 3.8.0-42.63~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rc linux-image-3.8.0-44-generic 3.8.0-44.66~precise1 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-generic-lts-trusty 3.13.0.32.28 Generic Linux kernel image



So I decided to remove the first and the last entries of that list. Reboot and 3.8.0-44 wont work. Then I boot again with 42 and remove 44 to.

After that I focus my night on solving some Virtualbox problems that comed up and go to sleep happy. (without trying to reboot)

EDIT: I forgot that here I also unistall all the package installed in (1) :) maybe unistall the kernel but preserve the other packages cuold be a solution, but I need to upgrade to maintain the support for HWE Stack (even if I'm not really sure to know what is the HWE Stack :P)

this morning I've turn on my pc to come into an annoying error, that was: "Could not write byte: broken pipe" showed on startup after select grub entry, after that my PC became a stone, totally unresponsive. Boot in recovery mode and, logging without graphic shell, the system show me the error on HWE Stack Support.

I repeat the procedure (1) and I found the 3.13 kernel installed but now I can boot from 3.8.0-42.

I came into this thread (http://askubuntu.com/questions/453411/ubuntu-14-04-not-booting-after-error-message-tmp-could-not-be-mounted) , not exactly my problem but quite akin, so I decide to try. But editing the grub entry doesn't make my system boot.

Any suggestion?

(Thank you everyone :) )

Bisneff
July 24th, 2014, 11:59 AM
Bump

Bisneff
July 28th, 2014, 12:10 PM
UP! No one?

kansasnoob
July 28th, 2014, 07:10 PM
In less than two weeks the only currently supported kernels will be those in the 3.2 and 3.13 series:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack#Kernel.2BAC8-Support.LTS_Kernel_Support_Schedule

So IMHO the best thing would be either a fresh install of 14.04.1:

http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04.1/

Or a fresh install of 12.04.1 which still uses the 3.2 series kernel:

http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04.1/

Not an ideal situation for sure, please read what I said here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2236096&page=2&p=13082770#post13082770

Bisneff
August 2nd, 2014, 02:48 PM
Format my system partition and install 14.04 did the trick.

I miss my 12.04, but it's ok.

Thanks