Package: upgrade-reports Severity: critical Tags: d-i Justification: breaks the whole system
Hi, I recently upgraded a server (amd64) from Squeeze to Wheezy, and from there to Jessie. The upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy went fine, but after upgrading to Jessie, the machine would not boot anymore, spewing some messages about something not found on the screen before dropping into the grub shell. It turned out that the new version of Grub had not been installed on the drives, but the old version had been deleted already. I first tried to resurrect the situation using the rescue mode of the d-i CD to re-install Grub on the drive(s), but that failed on all devices. I had to pop in a rescue CD (Finnix in my case) to mount all partitions in order, chroot to the real system, then # grub-install /dev/sda # grub-install /dev/sdb # grub-install /dev/md0 After that, the machine came back up properly. The machine has the following partitioning scheme: /dev/md/0 -> /boot /dev/md/1 -> LVM PV Inside the PV, I have /root , swap etc.pp. It might have been the case that re-installing Grub failed because I changed the mdadm configuration as instructed in the Squeeze->Wheezy upgrade notes from ARRAY /dev/md/0 something ARRAY /dev/md/1 something to ARRAY /dev/md0 something ARRAY /dev/md1 something (after doing the suggested checks, as instructed). I changed that back to ARRAY /dev/md/0 something ARRAY /dev/md/1 something I think I did that before doing the grub-install dance, but after that, the machine came back online just fine. HTH, --Toni++ -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (90, 'testing'), (70, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-0.bpo.4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
