Comment 60 for bug 443080

Well, my solution is applicable if you enabled the boot ppa. Those apckages
are sometimes quite experimental. In that case, you can downgrade the boot
ppa packages to the 'stable' ones from the standard karmic repo.

If that's the case, you first have to disable the boot ppa. You can edit
this by typing
- 'sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list' inside the chrooted system
- 'sudo gedit /media/ubuntu/etc/apt/sources.list' on the host system (I see
I forgot /media in my example)

It is also possible that the boot ppa repo is enabled by placing a file
inside /etc/apt/sources.list.d/. You have to look through the files in that
directory to see if one contains a link to the boot ppa.

After that, you can downgrade:
sudo aptitude install mountall/karmic

Of course, this procedure expects that the mountall from karmic is working.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 04:51, Rajeev <email address hidden> wrote:

> My system was restored and I was running Karmic for a week. Now, the
> same problem arises. I again tried to follow your steps (below). Can you
> please tell me what should be removed or what causes the problem that
> should be removed when I'm in the problematic install (mount from disk -
> Solution mentioned by Ernst)
>
> I don't think there are packages that provide faulty repos. Also, 'sudo
> gedit /ubuntu/ etc/apt/ sources. list' command opens a blank file.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Boot with the liveCD/USB and do:
>
> sudo -s -H
> mkdir /media/ubuntu
> # system partition:
> mount /dev/sda5 /media/ubuntu
> #/home partition:
> mount /dev/sda7 /media/ubuntu/home
> mount --bind /dev/ /media/ubuntu/dev
> mount --bind /dev/pts /media/ ubuntu/ dev/pts
> mount --bind /dev/shm /media/ ubuntu/ dev/shm
> chroot /media/ubuntu
> mount -t sysfs sysfs /sys
> mount -t proc proc /proc
> dhclient
>
> Now, you are in your problematic install.
> You can use "sudo aptitude remove ....." to remove a certain package, "sudo
> nano /etc/apt/ sources. list" to remove repositories who provide faulty
> packages (or sudo gedit /ubuntu/ etc/apt/ sources. list on the host, which
> is
> more convenient for most people), "sudo aptitude install <package>/karmic
> to
> downgrade a package to karmic.
>
> --
> ecryptfs mount does not support -f (fake mount)
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/443080
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