Bad upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10

[Larry Meadows]

I don't know how to get root authority to cd to the directories you want. I have tried the sudo command without success.

I am the installer so I would think I would have authority with my password, but it's not working.

Thanks,

Larry

Right after 8.10 became available, I attempted to upgrade from 8.04, It crashed my PC, I finally managed to reinstall 8.04. Today I accepted the Ubuntu online offer to upgrade to 8.10 that appeared automatically.on 8.04.

thinking that surely Ubuntu had caught all the glitches by now, I accepted the upgrade. After Ubuntu 8.04 processed the entire upgrade and the reboot was the only thing remaining to complete the process, it failed and I received the following error messages:

Gave up waiting for root device.
     Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
          Check root delay= (Did system wait long enough?)
          Check root= (Did system wait for the right device?)
     Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; 1s /dev)

Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/d90ecbb4-9b92-4220-9764-6108e989f7a1 does not exist.

opping to a shell

busybox v1.10.2 (Ubuntu 1:1.10.2-1ubuntu6) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands

(intramfs) [ 36.2000014] ata5:SRST failed (Error= -16)

ata5 reset failed, giving up

[76. 437769] sd 6:0:0:0 [sbc] assuming drive cache: write through

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please attach the files in /var/log/dist-upgrade/ to this bugreport so that we can diagnose the problem.

[Larry Meadows (counselingsite)]

I don't know how to get root authority to cd to the directories you want. I have tried the sudo command without success.

I am the installer so I would think I would have authority with my password, but it's not working.

Thanks, Michael,

Larry

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Larry Meadows (counselingsite)]

Thanks for checking. I'm happily on 9.04 now and a little fearful of
trying 9.10 after reading about all the bugs it came out with.

Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue
> for you? Thanks in advance.
>
>

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for following up. I'm closing this report due to your last comment.
Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.

[Larry Meadows (counselingsite)]

Can you tell me if most of the bugs are out of 9.10 by now? I want to
upgrade but am wary after what happened to me with 8.10.

Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:
> Thanks for following up. I'm closing this report due to your last comment.
> Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.
>
> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>
>

[Larry Meadows (counselingsite)]

Thanks, but I was referring to any bugs in 9.10.

Larry Meadows wrote:
> Can you tell me if most of the bugs are out of 9.10 by now? I want to
> upgrade but am wary after what happened to me with 8.10.
>
> Jean-Baptiste Lallement wrote:
>
>> Thanks for following up. I'm closing this report due to your last comment.
>> Don't hesitate to submit any new bug.
>>
>> ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu)
>> Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>>
>>
>>
>
>

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

There are currently 81102 open bugs filed against Ubuntu in Launchpad. So, no I can't tell that most of the bugs are out of any Ubuntu release by now. In your previous upgrade you've been hit by a major change of disk naming from device name to device unique id. It won't reproduce since you've switched to 9.04.

However, you can find informations about new features in 9.10 at http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/910overview
Don't hesitate to join #ubuntu on IRC to ask any question about the upgrade.