Thanks for your help. In the event I used another machine to rescue my private files and then did a clean install of 9.10. I don't think I will upgrade for a while! Thanks again
Morris J F Smith -----Original Message----- From: Brian Murray <[email protected]> To: morrissmi <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 18:05 Subject: [Bug 891711] Re: "Upgrade" from 11.10 to 11.04 results in a unusable system You also need to manually remove the kernel from 11.10 using the following steps in a terminal: 1) cd /boot 2) sudo rm *3.0.0-12* 3) sudo update-grub -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a duplicate bug report (886036). https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/891711 Title: "Upgrade" from 11.10 to 11.04 results in a unusable system Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: New Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “ubiquity” source package in Natty: Won't Fix Status in “ubiquity” source package in Oneiric: Confirmed Status in “ubiquity” source package in Precise: Triaged Bug description: If one has a running Ubuntu 11.10 system and then boots an Ubuntu 11.04 CD and chooses to install Ubuntu you are presented with an option to "Upgrade from 11.10 to 11.04". Choosing this option results in a crash. TEST CASE 1) Install Ubuntu 11.10 2) Try to reinstall Ubuntu 11.04 (because you are dissatisfied with the new release for some reason) 3) At the allocate drive space screen choose "Upgrade 11.10 to 11.04" (because you don't want to lose your data) 4) During the copying files phase observe a crash After the crash ubiquity became non-responsive and I went to a tty to reboot the system. The system fails to boot after choosing either the regular or recovery boot option from 11.10. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release- notes/+bug/891711/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/891711 Title: "Upgrade" from 11.10 to 11.04 results in a unusable system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-release-notes/+bug/891711/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
