failed to upgrade from feisty to gutsy

[Kamba]

i tried to upgrade throug internet. but after installation i can't boot on kernel higher then 2.6.20-16. all i have when i try to boot on 2.6.22-xx is just a two millimeters of blue status bar on boot screen.

i think, that maybe its because of blackout (downloading was interrupted, and resumed after reboot). how can i check downloaded archives or download them again?

[Kamba (blamer)]

/var/log/dmesg.2

[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Tue Oct 9 09:51:52 GMT 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.41-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003bfa0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003bfa0000 - 000000003bfae000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003bfae000 - 000000003bff0000 (ACPI NVS)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000003bff0000 - 000000003c000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fef00000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 63MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 896MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at 000ff780
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 245664) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 229376
[ 0.000000] HighMem 229376 -> 245664
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 245664
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 245664
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 1760 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 223520 pages, LIFO batch:31
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 127 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 16161 pages, LIFO batch:3
[ 0.000000] DMI present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00FB1A0 checksum 0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FB1A0, 0014 (r0 ACPIAM)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 3BFA0000, 0044 (r1 _ASUS_ Notebook 4000702 MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 3BFA0200, 0084 (r2 A_M_I_ OEMFACP 4000702 MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 3BFA05F0, 6988 (r1 A0586 A0586000 0 INTL 20060113)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 3BFAE000, 0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: APIC 3BFA0390, 0070 (r1 A_M_I_ OEMAPIC 4000702 MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: MCFG 3BFA0400, 003C (r1 A_M_I_ OEMMCFG 4000702 MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SLIC 3BFA0440, 0176 (r1 _ASUS_ Notebook 4000702 MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: BOOT 3BFA05C0, 0028 (r1 A_M_I_ OEMBOOT 4000702 MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: OEMB 3BFAE040, 0060 (r1 A_M_I_ AMI_OEM 4000702 MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: HPET 3BFA6F80, 0038 (r1 A_M_I_ OEMHPET0 4000702 MSFT 97)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT 3BFA6FC0, 0115 (r1 A_M_I_ POWERNOW 1 AMD 1)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x508
[ 0.000000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[ 0.000000] Processor #0 15:12 APIC version 16
[ 0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x81] disabled)
[ ...

[Kamba (blamer)]

for last half-an-hour tried to boot on 2.6.22-14 kernel in recovery mode. It stops on different places every time, so i do not know, how log/dmesg useful would be. For one attempt i've even saw a user@mycomp sign. When i typed "startx" - KDE started but have freezed on "initializing services" - the second graphics icon.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Kamba,

I assume this issue still exists in the final 7.10 Gusty Gibbon release. When you boot in "recovery mode" can you take a digital photo of your screen when you experience the issue. Please attach this photo to this bug report, it will be helpful to us to see the messages leading up to the error. Thanks.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Also, the Hardy Heron kernel was recently uploaded for testing. We'd really appreciate it if you could try testing with this newer kernel and verify if this issue still exists. Unfortunately, the Hardy Heron Alpha1 LiveCD was released with the older 2.6.22 kernel. You'll have to manually install the newer Hardy Heron kernel in order to test. This should not be the case for Alpha2 which is set to come out around Dec 20. However, here are the instructions to install if you choose to do so, otherwise just wait for Alpha2 to come out:

1) edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list and add the following line:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hardy main restricted

2) sudo apt-get update
3) sudo apt-get install linux-image-2.6.24-1-generic
4) reboot and select the new kernel from the grub menu

After you've tested, please feel free to revert back - ie boot into the old kernel, sudo apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.24-1-generic, and remove the line from /etc/apt/sources.list . Please update this report with your results. Thanks in advance!

[Kamba (blamer)]

Hi, Leann. Unfortunatly, i don't have digicamera. But i already said, that 2.6.22 kernel stops boot on different steps of process. Sometimes i even saw a graphic shell. But mostly it stops not far from the beginning of boot process.

I have Asus x50m. Nvidia Geforce GO 6100. All co-processors, buses, bridges and other stuff are NVidia corporation C51 series. Ethernet controller by Atheros Communications Inc.

P.S. Now i'm trying to upgrade to Hardy, as you advised. We'll see

[Kamba (blamer)]

HURRAY!! My laptop just booted on 2.6.24-2-generic Hardy Haron kernel!!!!!!!! Thanks to developers.

And special thanks to Leann Ogasawara. Thank you.

P.S. Where can i see the list of changes from Gutsy to Hardy?

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi Kamba,

I'm glad to hear things are working for you now. Thanks for your patience and persistence :) In terms of what changes happened between the Gutsy and the Hardy kernel you'll have to look at a few different locations. First, the kernel Hardy kernel was sync'd with the mainline kernel. You'll probablly have to go through the mainline kernel's release announcement's to see the sepcific changes from 2.6.22 through the 2.6.24-rc[#] releases. However, the following might also help:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux

In terms of what has changed overall with the distribution, the following might help:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/alpha1

I'll be closing the bug report since things appear to be working. Please feel free to report any future bugs you may find, it's much appreciated. Thanks!