Greetings,
I seem to have run into trouble upgrading from Ubuntu8.04 to Ubuntu10.04. The
other night, I figured I would try the upgrade process while the internet
trafic should be low.
I logged into my administrator account and ran sudo aptitude update followed by
sudo aptitude safe-upgrade. There were about 8 packages that were updated and
none listed as "NOT UPGRADABLE."
After the standard update process completed, from the gnome-terminal, I ran
sudo do-release-upgrade. Every thing started off fine. It took about half an
hour to download the necessary packages from the repositories. I monitored the
process for a little while (10-15 minutes) after that: It looked like the
standard update messages to me ("preparing to replace package version x with
package version y ..."). Since the entire process might take afew hours
(Before downloading, it said there were over 600 packages to instal and well
over 1,000 to upgrade) I decided to stretch my legs a little and came back to
check on the progress every 15-30 minutes.
After about 2 hours, orca stopped speaking and I found a small rectangular
dialog box in the middle of the screen. I wasn't sure if orca just lost focus
so first I tried altTabbing to give the dialog focus. Nothing seemed to
happen. I tried bringing up the run dialog to re-launch orca (I'm still in
gnome-2.22, orca randomly stops and I find re-launching it manually appears to
work), but the run dialog didn't appear to pop up.
Before I could try anything else, the screen went almost blank. To me it
looked deep blue, and I saw some stuff an the extreme top and bottom of the
screen which I assume was the outline of the top and bottom panels. I wasn't
sure what was going on, but the processor sounded like it was still chugging
along, so I left everything alone until it slowed down.
When the processor sounded like it stopped cranking, I waited about fifteen
minutes and nothing happened. i switched to text console 1 and logged in. I
connected my braillenote and attempted to launch brltty. I never recieved any
output on the braille display, but I noticed the screen filled with messages.
They kept coming and coming. Visually, it looked like when I run an update
process; They had a little bit of variation in length and some popped up
quickly while others took longer before the next message joined the queue. I
hoped the release process was still going. I stepped back before my
impationtce got the better of me. I came back about every half hour and
pressed the control key to reactivate the screen (I'm on a laptop and every
thirty or so minutes of inactivity and the screen goes to sleep i guess).
Eventually, the screen appeared to stop scrolling. All the messages stacked up
in columns. It took another hour before I could get sighted assistance to
review what was going on (about 7 hours from the start of do-release-upgrade).
I was getting an infinite loop of messagesstating brltty could't open device.
I had disconnected the braillenote a while back to keep it from getting
dropped. I tried reconnecting it, but it didn't appear to have any effect.
After another 15 or so minutes, I just gave up and pressed the power button on
the laptop and killed everything.
When i came back to reboot, I got the regular grub menu (I duel boot with
windows XP). Sighted assistance says the ubunntu entry is 8.04. When I trie
to launch buntu I'm not surprised to get a static screen full of messages.
>From talking with sighted assistance (who doesn't know linux) it appears a
>basic shell is launched after several modues nd devices fail to load. There's
>no log-in so I presume the users aren't being initialized. help age a long
>list of commands that appear to be standard shell commands "cat, mount,
>umount, &c).
Before I do anything drastic, is there a way to recover? from the basic shell,
can i remount my root an home partitions and either re-start or continue the
installation process? or is there at least a way to capture the messages (or
any other relevant information) say to a text file on a USB stick?
thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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