upgrade from edgy leads to unbootable system

[Sebastian Stark]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Yesterday I upgraded an edgy system to feisty using "update-manager -d".

It all went smooth except that after rebooting the kernel wouldn't mount my ext3 root filesystem. I found out that kernel 2.6.20 wasn't installed after the upgrade and neither was the initramfs, so no ext3 support. Message was:
unable to mount root fs on unkown-block(0,0).

The problem was easy to fix by burning the feisty beta iso and copy the kernel and /lib/modules from there to my rootfs, chroot into it and run update-grub.

Anyway, it would be nice to not ask the user to reboot UNLESS there is a working kernel image and initramfs installed.

Don't know if this is really a problem with update-manager, but it's a problem indeed.

There's nothing special with my root filesystem, it's plain ext3, no lvm or raid involved.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Please attach the logs from /var/log/dist-upgrade/ so that we can diagnose the problem.

Thanks,
 Michael

[raphael (raphoun)]

Same bug, I'll try to give you the log tomorrow.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for the logs.

The upgrade went fine indeed, the problem is that current no meta-package enforces a kernel.

thanks,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This problem is fixed in my local tree and the fix will be part of the next upload. It will ensure that there is a linux-image-$flavour installed that matches the installed (uname -r) flavour.

Cheers,
 Michael