SOLUTION: Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/ ...<your UUID>.... does not exist

[Neobuntu]

FINALLY FIXED THIS ONE!!!!!!! (Can you feel the emotion?)

I was dropped to a shell and stuck in Busy box. None of the suggested commands (or added delays) worked! It' kinda hard to upgrade when you can't boot.

I didn't have a old kernel to select (GRUB) because I just installed clean. It booted but not after an upgrade.

SOLUTION: (From Busybox shell hell.)

From my other saved partition with Hardy 8.04 and using "chroot" (you could use a live CD instead), this is how I fixed my Jaunty 9.04 fresh, beta install; where I could finally boot past (Dropped to shell) busybox again. I looked everywhere and tried everything. NONE of the buzybox suggested commands worked for me. I do NOT have RAID! Their was no UUID or /dev naming error. Only, the following worked for me.

I still do not know why the newly installed kernel failed to boot after upgrading it. Perhaps it didn't upgrade correctly or something because once I got back in, using chroot, I had to run the apt-get fix command that it recommends. Unless that was a limit of the chroot, I don't know. This problem was ugly and I almost gave up.

In a terminal (we're using sudo for root here)
REPLACE "X" with your correct drive number, like /dev/sda2 for example

sudo mount /dev/sdaX /mnt

(You can cut and paste the commands below)

sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
sudo mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys
sudo cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/resolv.conf
sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Then:

apt-get .......................
.........................etc.

Install a different kernel if you please.

I believe I did a:

apt-get update
(then the suggested fix command and...)

apt-get upgrade

While the kernel didn't appear to be different, I'm not sure that it wasn't a newer fix of it. It booted! Now, after doing upgrades back in Jaunty again, I'm about to reboot and try the newest kernel (it just installed).

ADDENDUM: Good to go!

I hope this helps you as much as it did me!

[cowgoeswoof]

i suffer from this problem aswell.
Where do I find out my dev/sdaX number?

[Neobuntu]

I suggest killing two birds with one stone.

Download and burn a boot CD of something like the Gparted CD. Simply booting this will show you (in GUI) how your partitions are set up.

Plus, you can re-size an existing partition with it, and simply leave a blank space (no need to format it) so that any OS installer can then handle everything else for you.

[PlaidRadish]

I upgraded tonight, and experienced this same error with all the same details/problems in my error message. I double-checked fstab and menu.lst and the UUID's were all correct, so I began experimenting with my server:

and found: a Secondary (simpler) possible solution to the

"Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/ ...<your UUID>.... does not exit"

error -

Out of morbid curiosity, and after receiving this error (and attempting DOZENS of so-called "fixes"), I decided to boot back into an older kernel through the GRUB menu (an obvious perk over a fresh install). (You could also attempt this simple solution using a liveCD and mounting your /root partition from a Live Desktop environment)

1) Open a terminal

2) Type "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"

3) When Ubuntu completes all remaining upgrades, reboot.

For some reason, for Ubuntu-Server Jaunty 9.04 release, there is an upgrade bug. If you simply run "upgrade" all of the necessary changes do not complete. A simple "dist-upgrade" completes the circle and flushes out the inconsistencies in drive UUID's.

Good luck!

[thrasher6900]

I have the same problem, however, for some reason, the driver for my wireless isn't automatically turned on when running live as in the past.

Is there a way to update this from the disk without internet?

I don't understand why the drivers aren't turned on for my wirless card, they are there, i just click activate and then it prompts a reboot, which as you know, doesn't save on a live disk.

Thanks ahead of time.

[leonbravo]

Ducking upgrade,

I am trying your solution. I started using and older kernel with console mode active (graphical session doesn't work)

But all packages are tried to be dowloaded and the network scripts apparently are not working. It just can't download anything.

Suggestions are wellcome.

I upgraded tonight, and experienced this same error with all the same details/problems in my error message. I double-checked fstab and menu.lst and the UUID's were all correct, so I began experimenting with my server:

and found: a Secondary (simpler) possible solution to the

"Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/ ...<your UUID>.... does not exit"

error -

Out of morbid curiosity, and after receiving this error (and attempting DOZENS of so-called "fixes"), I decided to boot back into an older kernel through the GRUB menu (an obvious perk over a fresh install). (You could also attempt this simple solution using a liveCD and mounting your /root partition from a Live Desktop environment)

1) Open a terminal

2) Type "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"

3) When Ubuntu completes all remaining upgrades, reboot.

For some reason, for Ubuntu-Server Jaunty 9.04 release, there is an upgrade bug. If you simply run "upgrade" all of the necessary changes do not complete. A simple "dist-upgrade" completes the circle and flushes out the inconsistencies in drive UUID's.

Good luck!

[leonbravo]

Ducking upgrade,

I am trying your solution. I started using and older kernel with console mode active (graphical session doesn't work)

But all packages are tried to be dowloaded and the network scripts apparently are not working. It just can't download anything.

Suggestions are wellcome.

A simple solution would be run the upgrade from console. I have a alternate cd but I don't know how to run the upgrade without using graphical interface and without an internet, I think that is the purpose of the Alternate CD at first place.

[jdieter]

Exact same problem. I tried this method, and apt-get said:
0 Upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded
When I reboot, I get the exact same error.

I upgraded tonight, and experienced this same error with all the same details/problems in my error message. I double-checked fstab and menu.lst and the UUID's were all correct, so I began experimenting with my server:

and found: a Secondary (simpler) possible solution to the

"Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/ ...<your UUID>.... does not exit"

error -

Out of morbid curiosity, and after receiving this error (and attempting DOZENS of so-called "fixes"), I decided to boot back into an older kernel through the GRUB menu (an obvious perk over a fresh install). (You could also attempt this simple solution using a liveCD and mounting your /root partition from a Live Desktop environment)

1) Open a terminal

2) Type "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"

3) When Ubuntu completes all remaining upgrades, reboot.

For some reason, for Ubuntu-Server Jaunty 9.04 release, there is an upgrade bug. If you simply run "upgrade" all of the necessary changes do not complete. A simple "dist-upgrade" completes the circle and flushes out the inconsistencies in drive UUID's.

Good luck!

[jdieter]

As I said, the dist-upgrade didn't work. So I edited /etc/fstab and replaced the UUID with /dev/sda1 - that didn't work either.
So I edited menu.lst and all the UUID in it already matched the ones that blkid showed.

No idea where to go from here.

Exact same problem. I tried this method, and apt-get said:
0 Upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded
When I reboot, I get the exact same error.

[jdieter]

NONE of the "fixes" in this thread work. Machine is toast. Can't BELIEVE this has been going on for months - and no one has fixed it. Is this not posted in the correct place? Actually, there is one fix that worked for me. I bought a mac.