After upgrading from 18.04 to 18.10 the system no longer boots

Bug #1798946 reported by Piotr M
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Bug Description

I upgraded fom Kubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 by running `do-release-upgrade` in the terminal. The process completed without any obvious problems. After rebooting, the system no longer boots, it gets stuck as seen in the attachment.

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Piotr M (yabolus) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

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Piotr M (yabolus) wrote :

attaching logs from /var/log/dist-upgrade/

affects: ubuntu → ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
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Piotr M (yabolus) wrote :

I managed to fix my system by booting a live system, chrooting into my installation and manually running `update-initramfs -u`. Still, this should be looked into.

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