Just a shot in the dark: I think that some time after 10.04, the fstab entries refer to the devices by their UUID, instead of /dev/sdX.
Amichai. 2014-10-07 23:30 GMT+03:00 E.S. Rosenberg <[email protected]>: > DId you verify that everything had finished installing w/o error? > For interrupted installs: > dpkg --configure -a > > and then: > apt-get update && apt-get autoclean && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get > autoremove > > Would make sure that everything was installed properly, what you decribe > to me sounds like a system that didn't actually finish it's upgrade/install > process and was rebooted. > > HTH, chag sameach, > Eliyahu - אליהו > > 2014-10-05 21:14 GMT+03:00 David Harel <[email protected]>: > >> Greetings, >> >> I hastily tried to upgrade from 10.04 to 14.04 using do-relase-upgrade >> It turned out to be a bad idea. >> Now after boot I get something like "can not mount /" and then it >> suggests that I will type (among other things) M for maintenance (start a >> shell) >> First flaw I noticed is missing init functions typically in >> /lib/lsb/init_functions.d >> I also noticed that init_functions file is not up to date so I copied >> them from a stable14.04 installation. This operation enabled running them >> scripts in /etc/init.d and also the service command. >> Also I had to create a directory /run/network so ifup -a will start. >> Still I couldn't figure out what step in the boot process I am missing >> that fails to mount / >> Currently I setup the services on this server manually including: >> mount -rw,remount / >> mountall >> networking >> ifup -a // Had to do it separately. >> smbd >> nmbd >> ssh >> postgresql-8.4 >> apache2 >> >> the server is running in full but I guess it has some security issues. >> I can not use the init command (i.e. init 2) to initiate the machine. It >> reboots and I have to start all over again. >> >> I intend to install a new server instead but for curiosity sake I want to >> keep the bad server in order to learn more about upstart. >> >> I did not find any articles about boot sequence with upstart other than >> how to build rc files and a few about the conf files in /etc/init >> >> Will appreciate some good reading on the subject. >> >> Thanks. >> >> David Harel >> Amuka >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > >
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