Comments on: Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy → 8.04 Hardy upgrade freeze

By: barbex bites bits - will blog for coffee » Blog Archive » hardy is freezing my gutsy upgrade

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:54:19 +0000

[...] as I learned here, it looks like I could have avoided all that if I had only received the critical kernel patch that [...]

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By: barbex

barbex — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:53:11 +0000

hmmm…

You know now that I think about it, I may have skipped all the updating and may have decided to upgrade straightaway. Bad idea I guess.
That computer is not connected to the internet all the time and my internet connection is so slow that I probably didn’t bother with the 300+ updates before upgrading, not that I was really aware that I should have done that.
So my bad?

Still quiet annoying.

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By: .:. brainsik

.:. brainsik — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:08:57 +0000

@barbex: Actually, a new kernel was released on August 25 that was supposed to fix the problem. For me, it did. All the other machines in the cluster I manage were able to upgrade to Hardy without any problems.

Did you make sure your Gutsy 7.10 had all the latest packages installed before trying to upgrade to Hardy 8.04?

If so, there does appear there are still some people hitting the bug. If you have the time and inclination you should make some noise on the bug page so they how widespread the problem is:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/249340

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By: barbex

barbex — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:34:54 +0000

It’s almost October now and I can not BELIEVE that I just run into this problem! How can that not be fixed by now?
Unfortunately I found your solution too late and had completely screwed my system. Had to reinstall to get back to my perfectly working system. So what is the consequence? Never upgrade? Is this Windooze?

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By: brainsik

brainsik — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:36:46 +0000

I was doing this over SSH to a remote box, so hitting Esc at the grub menu wasn’t an option. I’ll clarify the article.

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By: Mike S.

Mike S. — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:27:05 +0000

“The way I changed kernels was to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and nuke the lines about the 2.6.22-15 kernel. That made 2.6.22-14 the top-most kernel.”

Or – ESC at the grub menu and select it (?)

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