Karmic to Lucid Upgrade Stalls

[plasmoidal]

Specifically, after downloading the necessary packages, they get unpacked up through package "tzdata", at which point the following appears:

Processing triggers for man-db...
Processing triggers for doc-base...
Processing 2 changed doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...

At which point the upgrade stalls (just blinking cursor at the console, not frozen), and I'm unable to stop it (even with ctrl-alt-C). Has anyone encountered a similar problem, and/or know a way to safely stop the upgrade (it doesn't look like it's actually installed any of the unpacked packages yet)?

Thank you.

[plasmoidal]

Probably on a related note, the desktop is broken as well--I can't open any new nautilus windows and if I open up a new console, it is entirely unresponsive (I try to type, but nothing appears). Other applications seem unaffected (e.g., Gedit works just fine).

[Maliron]

Not to tag-along off of your post, but I have a similar problem.

During my upgrade the unpacking and everything went fine. It was during the "Installing Packages" portion, when it got to the linux-headers, the entire system froze. No mouse, no caps-lock, nothing. I left it there for about half an hour and nothing progressed. I had no choice but to shut the system down....

Obviously I don't have a working system now, and have no idea how to go about fixing.

Anyone have any starting points, or are we both destined to fresh installs?

***EDIT***
I should note, that I cannot even boot into the recovery console. I am booted to a liveUSB of 10.04 right now.

[Maliron]

From my liveUSB I've chroot'ed over to my install and I am trying the following.

sudo dpkg --configure -a
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get --fix-missing

/crossing_my_fingers

[plasmoidal]

I just did the same thing and got karmic back up and running, minus some config files. I very much hope things are going well on your end--there are few things scarier than a broken OS!

Thanks.

[Maliron]

Glad to hear the good news! Mine is a bit more sorted. It seems the upgrade got a lot further than I thought. The above steps got me a semi booting system again. I get the Lucid boot splash, but it hangs and says:

"An error occurred while mounting /proc/bus/usb"

It gives me the option to S Skip or M Manual recovery. Hopefully I can figure out what's causing that to not mount and maybe be in luck here. When I get a chance though I think this system is destined for an entire rebuild, they never seem to run right after something like this.

[joham34]

Glad to hear the good news! Mine is a bit more sorted. It seems the upgrade got a lot further than I thought. The above steps got me a semi booting system again. I get the Lucid boot splash, but it hangs and says:

"An error occurred while mounting /proc/bus/usb"

It gives me the option to S Skip or M Manual recovery. Hopefully I can figure out what's causing that to not mount and maybe be in luck here. When I get a chance though I think this system is destined for an entire rebuild, they never seem to run right after something like this.

Have exactly the same problem . In /etc/fstab , the last line says :
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0
presumably the correction should be done there but I am too newbie to change fstab.
Help please !

[Dubbayoo]

Same here. For my system that last line was added for VirtualBox. I commented it out and everything is fine now.

[fred0310]

Same problem while booting... :
"An error occurred while mounting /proc/bus/usb"
S skip to continue or M to manual

What to do to resolve this ?

Thanks

[kenbaldwin]

Same problem while booting...
"An error occurred while mounting /proc/bus/usb"
Doesn't seem to have any effect I can detect. USB mouse and external drive work fine.
Fix anyone? Thanks