[ale] Ubuntu help

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:15:31 +0000
Joshua Kite <jwkite at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/1/26 Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>
> 
> > On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:42:55 -0500
> > Joshua Kite <jwkite at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I have a machine that had Ubuntu Feisty on it.  I needed to add
> > > some packages when I realized the shortcomings of not keeping a
> > > distro current; the Feisty packages have been archived because it
> > > is no longer supported. Long story short, I ultimately ended up
> > > changing the sources.list file to point to Hardy and managed to
> > > mostly get the box upgraded.  However, I continually had issues
> > > apt installing linux-generic and other kernel-related packages.
> > > I had run in to dependency hell.
> >
> > The problem here is that you skipped from Feisty to Hardy.  Probably
> > the best bet would have been to upgrade from Feisty (7.04) to Gutsy
> > (7.10), and then to Hardy (8.04).
> >
> > Officially speaking, Ubuntu's upgrading infrastructure only supports
> > upgrading from one release to the next immediate release; the only
> > exception for that is from LTS to LTS.  For example, users of Dapper
> > did not have to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy to Feisty to Gutsy to
> > Hardy.  They were able to skip Edgy, Feisty, and Gutsy altogether
> > and just upgrade directly to Hardy.  When the next LTS comes out,
> > Hardy will be able to upgrade directly to it, as well.
> >
> > I don't suppose that there is probably a way to revert the packages
> > to the state that they were in before you started with this.  Given
> > that, I would wipe the drive and install Intrepid.  :-P
> >
> > You mentioned 2.2 kernels.  I don't know what you're referring to,
> > there; Ubuntu uses the 2.6 series and has all the way back to Ubuntu
> > 4.10, the very first release (which used Linux 2.6.8 for its
> > kernel).
> >
> > Could you provide some extra data?  If you could pastebin the
> > following files:
> >
> >  /boot/grub/menu.lst
> >  /var/log/apt/term.log [Only starting from the upgrade]
> >
> > Also, the output of the following commands will be useful:
> >
> >  ls -ld /boot/*
> >  dpkg -l
> >
> > I mentioned pastebin because some of these are going to be quite
> > lengthy and shouldn't be on-list.  I'd recommend pasting them there
> > and then providing links here.
> >
> >        --- Mike
> >
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> > Mike,
> 
> Thanks for the help.  After a good night's sleep, I have booted via
> livecd and chrooted into my system.  Just to cover all the bases, my
> system has / /boot /home /usr and /var on different partitions, and I
> mounted all of those before chrooting.
> 
> I have used apt-get to remove all linux images and similar packages.
> My goal at this point is to install the linux-server package,
> although I would be content with any working kernel at this point.
> 
> Per your request, here are the files you asked for (and thanks, btw,
> for introducing me to pastebin):
> 
> /boot/grub/menu.lst  http://pastebin.com/m27055ad2
> 
> /var/log/apt/term.log (starting after the upgrade got the machine
> stable but before I ended up removing the kernel)
> http://pastebin.com/m76ada55f
> 

Looks like you need to install GRUB.  :-)

Try "sudo apt-get install grub" and see what happens.

	--- Mike

-- 
My sigfile ran away and is on hiatus.
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