[Bug 1061239] Re: system hangs after selecting certain menu items inRecovery Menu

2013-03-21 Thread John
Still no progress...? For people still encountering it, with /dev/sda1 being your /: 1. 'root Drop to root shell prompt' 2. optional, fsck -f /dev/sda1 3. mount /dev/sda1 / -o remount,rw 4. you now can write on / -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu

[Bug 1061239] Re: system hangs after selecting certain menu items inRecovery Menu

2012-10-20 Thread giorgosts
Ctrl+C works by initiating the resume action. This bug left me in an unbootable state because of a syntax error in xorg.conf. I was forced to use an external recovery live CD to recover. The solution was to remove friendly-recovery. Now I have root prompt with read-write privileges. -- You

[Bug 1061239] Re: system hangs after selecting certain menu items inRecovery Menu

2012-10-20 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users. ** Changed in: friendly-recovery (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061239

[Bug 1061239] Re: system hangs after selecting certain menu items inRecovery Menu

2012-10-15 Thread Avi Greenbury
I'm not certain if I'm affected by the same problem or not. I do this: 1) Choose 'enable networking' 2) Say 'yes' to the prompt informing me that this will remount my / fs and everything else in fstab 3) See fsck start 4) Don't get anything else Attached is a photo from about half an hour after

[Bug 1061239] Re: system hangs after selecting certain menu items inRecovery Menu

2012-10-03 Thread SteVe Cook
** Package changed: ubuntu = friendly-recovery (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1061239 Title: system hangs after selecting certain menu items inRecovery Menu To manage

[Bug 1061239] Re: system hangs after selecting certain menu items inRecovery Menu

2012-10-03 Thread SteVe Cook
Discovered which package it is - friendly-recovery 0.2.25 Tried this on four different machines. If I select Drop to root and run 'service network-manager start' I get the following error message: Could not get the system bus. Make sure the message bus daemon is running! Message: Failed to