Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: aptitude
Note: I am running from my Windows partition, so I cannot execute the
commands to get, for example, precise version numbers. Also, because I
cannot access system logs or anything, I will try to recount my steps
from memory.
1) I was running Jaunty Alpha 5, trying to do a dist-upgrade after Alpha
6 was released
2) Aptitude was whatever version that was available for the Alpha 5 (I
last ran a package update about a week ago (early-mid March 2009))
3) I noticed that scim-bridge crashed when I was using gvim, and I tried
to report the crash. The crash reporting tool said it could not complete
because packages were out of date. I tried doing "aptitude update"
followed by "aptitude dist-upgrade". It said it would download many
different package upgrades, and installing would take around 100Mb. I
continued with the upgrade. The upgrade process downloaded all the
packages fine. I expected it to then install and configure the updated
packages without a problem.
4) ...Instead, it got about halfway (sorry I don't know what it failed
on) and the screen froze. At the time I was running Firefox and Pidgin
in addition to the terminal running the upgrade process. I used ctrl-
alt-left_arrow to change desktops, and when it arrived on the other
desktop, everything became unresponsive. The keyboard did nothing, the
mouse cursor did not move. I waited a couple minutes, and nothing
changed, so I hard-reset the computer by pressing the power button for
5-seconds. When the computer restarted, it failed to load gdm, so I was
presented with a console screen. I ran a few commands, such as "dpkg
--configure -a" and "aptitude upgrade", which seemed to continue
installing where the failed upgrade left off, but at the end it said
there were many errors. After restarting again, gdm still would not
load. I couldn't even use vim to analyze config files. Both gdm and vim
crashed, saying "Bus Error (core dumped)". I tried restarting in
recovery mode, running the dpkg fixing tool (whatever that does),
updating grub, fixing the display, etc.. Then resumed startup. No gdm. I
restarted again, and now there were two kernel choices instead of 1. I
tried both, and no luck. Fortunately I left an old, dusty Windows Vista
partition on the drive, which booted fine. I am writing this bug report
from that Vista partition.
A few more details:
I'm running on a Lenovo Thinkpad x61t tablet
I was using ext4 on both the / and /home partitions
I started using Jaunty from Alpha 4
I'm sorry that I'm not going to leave the broken Ubuntu installation on
my drive for further analysis. I need to use this laptop for school and
other tasks, so I'm going to do a fresh install of Jaunty Alpha 6. This
is why I was trying to be very thorough in my process description.
Hopefully this problem does not affect other users.
** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Freeze during upgrade, now gdm unusable
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344670
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