lila
August 25th, 2016, 09:38 PM
Hello,
I've just upgraded from 14.? to 16.04. And yes, i have done a complete backup of all my files... phew!
During the upgrade, I could tell things weren't going well, because I got all these error messages. I wrote them all down on post-its, not knowing how to save them otherwise, so here they are:
The first one was different from the subsequent ones and set alarm bells ringing:
sysv-rc
subprocess installed
post-installation script returned error exit status 1
And then, a bit later these started coming in fast, always the same message, but with different packages, the message was:
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
the packages were (in no particular order, as I was soon filling in all the blank spaces on my post-its):
initscripts
procps
udev
intramfs-tool-core
intramfs-tools
keyboard-configuration
console-setup-linux
console-setup
plymouth
cryptsetup
cups-daemon
cups-core-drivers
cups
upower
That's it.
In the end, it told me that the upgrade had failed and that it would run a rescue attempt, but with no guarantee. I said ok, it did its thing and then it started to restart all on it's own, but doesn't manage to boot. It got stuck on the login screen a handful of times, and at first i thought this was a keyboard recognition problem (I have a French keyboard and several characters in my password are not in the same place as they would be on an English keyboard). I tried typing it in several different keyboard layouts (as if I had those keyboards), but to no avail. Eventually it wouldn't even go to the login screen anymore, I tried a few restarts, and now I now I get, very briefly (too briefly to read properly) a screen with four options of starting ubuntu or running a memtest.
Then I get a screen that looks a bit like a terminal-like thing which ends in the ominous phrase:
[ 2.819253] ---[ end kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root on unknown block (0,0)
Now, I can hit the restart button and it will keep coming to this point, but I can't switch it off in any other way than unplugging it at the mains, which I do not like doing. It reminds me too much of Windows 98 and the reasons I switched to ubuntu... 12 years ago. I'm just not used to this sort of thing any more. At all. Help!:(
I take it my only option is a fresh install? I could make a CD with my other computer (on which I am writing this). But then some of the magicians here may have another option up their sleeve... :)
Thanks in advance for your help!
I've just upgraded from 14.? to 16.04. And yes, i have done a complete backup of all my files... phew!
During the upgrade, I could tell things weren't going well, because I got all these error messages. I wrote them all down on post-its, not knowing how to save them otherwise, so here they are:
The first one was different from the subsequent ones and set alarm bells ringing:
sysv-rc
subprocess installed
post-installation script returned error exit status 1
And then, a bit later these started coming in fast, always the same message, but with different packages, the message was:
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
the packages were (in no particular order, as I was soon filling in all the blank spaces on my post-its):
initscripts
procps
udev
intramfs-tool-core
intramfs-tools
keyboard-configuration
console-setup-linux
console-setup
plymouth
cryptsetup
cups-daemon
cups-core-drivers
cups
upower
That's it.
In the end, it told me that the upgrade had failed and that it would run a rescue attempt, but with no guarantee. I said ok, it did its thing and then it started to restart all on it's own, but doesn't manage to boot. It got stuck on the login screen a handful of times, and at first i thought this was a keyboard recognition problem (I have a French keyboard and several characters in my password are not in the same place as they would be on an English keyboard). I tried typing it in several different keyboard layouts (as if I had those keyboards), but to no avail. Eventually it wouldn't even go to the login screen anymore, I tried a few restarts, and now I now I get, very briefly (too briefly to read properly) a screen with four options of starting ubuntu or running a memtest.
Then I get a screen that looks a bit like a terminal-like thing which ends in the ominous phrase:
[ 2.819253] ---[ end kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root on unknown block (0,0)
Now, I can hit the restart button and it will keep coming to this point, but I can't switch it off in any other way than unplugging it at the mains, which I do not like doing. It reminds me too much of Windows 98 and the reasons I switched to ubuntu... 12 years ago. I'm just not used to this sort of thing any more. At all. Help!:(
I take it my only option is a fresh install? I could make a CD with my other computer (on which I am writing this). But then some of the magicians here may have another option up their sleeve... :)
Thanks in advance for your help!