Karmic system fails to boot
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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mountall (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
|
High
|
Scott James Remnant (Canonical) |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: upstart
Karmic i386 system with up-to-date packages fails to boot after mountall (kernel 2.6.31-10) or presumably network start (kernel 2.6.30-2). In the latter case the system remains silent with no clear error indication when booting without splash, console input remains reponsive. With kernel 2.6.31-10 mountall complains about missing /proc/self/
In both cases it's possible to boot with init=/bin/bash, and after performing some manual maintenance it's possible to bring up networking and upgrade to latest packages. Current versions are: upstart 0.6.3-3, initscripts 2.87dsf-4ubuntu5, mountall 0.1.6.
I tried to further diagnose utilities by running them by hand but couldn't do much because many of them require the upstart socket to be in place. A way to simulate system startup step by step could help to find what is breaking the boot process.
tags: | added: ubuntu-boot |
Changed in upstart (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Critical |
assignee: | nobody → Scott James Remnant (scott) |
Changed in upstart (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Critical → High |
tags: | removed: ubuntu-boot |
Changed in upstart (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Scott James Remnant (scott) → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) |
When booting with kernel 2.6.30-2, last message displayed before the system hangs is the NTP start message (possibly when eth0 goes up).