karmic upgrade screwed mtab on reboot
Bug #456493 reported by
Antoine Martin
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Updated 2 machines to karmic via "update-manager -d"
After the successful upgrade (had to remove openoffice on one of the machines to make it happen),
I rebooted only to find the system unable to boot. It complained about mtab early on in the boot process, could not mount, etc..
Googled it a bit, mounted the filesystem from a live cd and simply deleted a bunch of files named "/etc/mtab*"
Then all went fine.
An inexperienced user would have no chance of solving that, ever.
Maybe, just move them out of the way after doing the upgrade?
tags: | removed: upgrade |
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Thanks for your bugreport.
Did the same happen on both machines? Could you please attach the logs in /var/log/ dist-upgrade/ * to this bugreport? Do you happen to have the output of ls -l /etc/mtab or a memory if it was a file or a symlink?