Comment 22 for bug 398214

Let me remind you fools, that the stuff your saying, is just another 'bug'
it ain't solved like this...

you will know that.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Paul <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you chisao, you saved my night!
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> 1. Ensure you are connected to your router by DHCP.
> 2. Start your machine and select the "recovery kernel linux 2.6.31-10" with
> the "down" button. Press "e" on your keyboard.
> 3. Select the "kernel uuid=..." entry with the "down" button and type "e"
> again.
> 4. Change "ro single" to "rw init=/bin/bash". Press "Enter" and "b" on the
> keyboard.
> 5. Wait until booting stops and press "Enter".
> 6. "root@(none):" is displayed. Type in the konsole:
> dhclient eth0
> 7. After this operation the connection to the internet is activated and you
> can type in the konsole:
> apt-get dist-upgrade
> 8. Wait 10 min until upgrade is done.
> 9. Reboot your machine and select "kernel linux 2.6.31-9" in grub.
>
> Ubuntu works.
>
> I tried to start "kernel linux 2.6.31-10" after the upgrade but this
> didn´t work. Probably the next dist-upgrade does it.
>
> --
> Karmic Koala stopps dead after /scripts/init-bottom
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/398214
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>
> Status in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
>
> After an update yesterday my Karmic installation no longer completely boots
> in any kernel (in safe or other wise) I have kernels 2.30.8, 2.30.9 and
> 2.30.10 installed.
>
> When not in safe mode I see the splash screen the the screen goes blank and
> nothing happens. I can press Alt-F1 and what I see something like the
> following:
>
> kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/...) - dev(8,3)
> kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by0uuid/...
> kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...
>
> In safe mode I see the above with the following additional lines:
>
> Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ...
> Done.
> Done.
> Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
> Done.
> [ 42.560077] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec
>
> Immediately after updating X appeared to have died but I could access
> virtual terminals now after attempting to reboot (with all kernels) I never
> get any virtual terminals.
>
> Regards,
> Ivan Wills
>