After finishing the installation, I wasn't able to start the OS again (forever waiting with a black screen). The first thing I saw while looking for answers was that 32-bit wasn't supported, assumed that that was problem and reinstalled it again. In any case and as said, the installer didn't recognise the partition as a valid OS (either 64 bit was installed or something went completely wrong) and forced a formatting.
Regarding messing everything up, it might be caused by a different issue: an old Linux Kernel. Note that I use that computer under quite tough CPU/IO conditions (lots of reading/writing to a database) and that it is quite old. The last time I installed everything from scratch the load was much lower and these weird issues (e.g., getting regularly frozen and having to manually fsck at startup over and over) didn't happen, so I assumed that it was some of the files/modifications from the faulty 64-bit installation. But apparently it was some kind of bug which is fixed in the last stable Kernel. BTW, I relied on both MySQL and MariaDB and the later seems to manage the situation more gracefully (unnecessarily slow, but not showing the aforementioned behaviours). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1769433 Title: do-release-upgrade from 32-bit 16.04 to 18.04 goes ahead, doesn't work and messes everything up To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1769433/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
