Well, the *.dpkg-new files themselves will be always (not to everything, but to anything where the /etc/* is new and different) be put there.
So, any time you may "quit" an upgrade in the middle, you probably will have those. I don't recall myself quiting a dist-upgrade before (maybe I did maybe I didn't, so I am now trying to talk about Karmic). What I'm getting at is that IF, "it" (the Karmic upgrade stopping) replaces /etc files that are critical, with the "conf".dpkg-new's, AND is erasing the "conf" etc, AND they are needed to boot, or start X or anything else.. As you can see, the system is looking for the "confs" and can not find them. So it fails. That was MY issue, I am not that much in the debian/ubuntu loop, just have been using them for awhile. All other issues are possible. If it was a similar issue of this type, I would need to guess that some other critical "confs" have been changed, adding the extention of .dpkg-new (which is normal) AND deleting the old "conf" at the same time. I really don't know much about what "apt" is actually suppose to be doing under the hood. Like I say, any issue is possible, but maybe (this may or may not help) read log files, all of them, just after boot, and failing. jon. On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:44 AM, bartek <[email protected]> wrote: > The solution in #3 doesn't seem to work for me. There are no files with > .dpkg-new extensions in the /etc/init/ directory. > All files have a .conf extension like rc.conf or tty3.conf > > Sorry if I overlooked something and made a fool out of myself. > > -- > Karmic Koala stopps dead after /scripts/init-bottom > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398214 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > Hi, > > After an update yesterday my Karmic installation no longer completely boots > in any kernel (in safe or other wise) I have kernels 2.30.8, 2.30.9 and > 2.30.10 installed. > > When not in safe mode I see the splash screen the the screen goes blank and > nothing happens. I can press Alt-F1 and what I see something like the > following: > > kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/...) - dev(8,3) > kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by0uuid/... > kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot... > > In safe mode I see the above with the following additional lines: > > Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ... > Done. > Done. > Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... > Done. > [ 42.560077] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec > > Immediately after updating X appeared to have died but I could access > virtual terminals now after attempting to reboot (with all kernels) I never > get any virtual terminals. > > Regards, > Ivan Wills > -- Karmic Koala stopps dead after /scripts/init-bottom https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398214 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
