Public bug reported:
I have an asus eee 1000 netbook (with Intel 945GME - see below) and
upgraded from UNR 9.04 to karmic beta.
After the restart by the upgrade assistant, the system won't boot:
- Grub loads, executes linux
- Screen goes black, short flicker (possibly KMS?)
- Screen stays black (for about 15 seconds, no cursor)
- 2 lines are printed about fsck finding my root partition clean
- boot process stops, hdd light goes off, nothing happens; you can enter stuff
on the keyboard and it gets printed on the screen, but no reaction
- after pressing ctrl+alt+del the system prints shutdown messages and reboots
I have no idea if this bug is related to the kernel, upstart or
whatever, sorry.
I suspect this is unrelated to Bug #431812 (ultimateblackness) and Bug #430694,
and here is why:
- booting with i915.modeset=0 makes no difference. Just the resolution of the
text display changes.
- Tried workaround #430694#2, #430694#32, and any combination with the above.
No change.
- As far as I understand these bugs are fixed in the mean time and I have the
newest updates (see below).
I have the kernels left over from my jaunty installation
(linux-2.6.28.15-generic). When I boot into this kernel I get a lot more text
(possibly the usual boot behaviour) up until the same point. The key difference
is that pressing ctrl+alt+del give me a root shell for a few seconds before
shutting down. I can enter "init 3" to stop the shutdown process, ctrl+alt+f2
to another shell and log in as a user.
This way even my dm-crypt based partition is mounted by pam into my home drive
(rw). mount reports the root fs mounted rw as well, but "sudo touch /test"
complains about an readonly filesystem as does everything else. That's where
I'm stuck. I guess I'm not supposed to use the old kernel anyways.
"dmesg | tail" just says the filesystem was mounted successfully, nothing weird
I have a live cd (9.04 URN usb stick), which I used to chroot into my
installation and update packages. Having all the newest updates didn't
solve the issue apparently.
I had the splash screen turned off before upgrading.
The bug is also deterministic, I have booted >20-30 times now.
If it could be any further help I can try to find a way to save log
files.
Thanks.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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fails to boot after upgrade
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/451989
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