Public bug reported: Fresh installation with 14.04 (no updates) CD works. After dist-upgrading system won't boot anymore.
After lots of troubling I found the culprit to be plymouth! I tried several versions of kernel, even with backported ones (3.16, 3.19), in all cases the system wasn't able to boot anymore. Hardware is an IBM System x 3200 M2 with LSI 1064 RAID. I described more symtomps here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2286434 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/214368/ubuntu-14-04-not-booting-after-kernel-startup http://askubuntu.com/questions/643976/ubuntu14-stuck-after-kernel-initialization ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: plymouth 0.8.8-0ubuntu17 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.11 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDmesg: [ 101.874756] init: tty1 main process ended, respawning Date: Mon Jul 27 17:00:15 2015 DefaultPlymouth: Error: command ['readlink', '/etc/alternatives/default.plymouth'] failed with exit code 1: InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-07-24 (3 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.2) MachineType: IBM IBM System x3200 M2 -[4368K8G]- ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=fc639dd7-fd22-4ab0-890c-f8a21855cc47 ro ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcFB: 0 radeondrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-24-generic root=UUID=fc639dd7-fd22-4ab0-890c-f8a21855cc47 ro SourcePackage: plymouth TextPlymouth: /lib/plymouth/themes/ubuntu-text/ubuntu-text.plymouth UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 06/11/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: IBM dmi.bios.version: IBM BIOS Version 1.43 -[GUE143AUS-1.43]- dmi.board.name: 4367 dmi.board.vendor: IBM dmi.board.version: SVT dmi.chassis.type: 17 dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:bvrIBMBIOSVersion1.43-[GUE143AUS-1.43]-:bd06/11/2009:svnIBM:pnIBMSystemx3200M2-[4368K8G]-:pvrSVT:rvnIBM:rn4367:rvrSVT:cvnIBM:ct17:cvr: dmi.product.name: IBM System x3200 M2 -[4368K8G]- dmi.product.version: SVT dmi.sys.vendor: IBM ** Affects: plymouth (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1478601 Title: system won't boot anymore after upgrading to plymouth-0.8.8-0ubuntu17.1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/1478601/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
