need to keep the old computer running for a couple more weeks - don't have a couple of hours to experiment now. 
will try to do the upgrade later, and will try to take some photos if this fix doesn't work. 
thanks for getting back to me. 


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: Leann Ogasawara <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Tue, 26 May 2009 2:26 am
Subject: [Bug 367691] Re: unable to upgrade Dell Inspiron from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04










Hi peter,

You description here mentions and "end trace" which leads me to believe
there is some sort of panic or oops that may be happening.  Could you
try booting with the 'quiet' and 'splash' options removed (Press
'Escape' key at the 3 second pause by Grub bootloader. Then press 'e'
(edit) on the buggy kernel entry, followed by 'e' again on the kernel
line. Then remove the 'splash' and 'quiet' keywords and press 'b' to
boot.)  Could you take a digital photo of your screen with the panic or
oops error messages and attach it to this bug report?  Thanks.

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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unable to upgrade Dell Inspiron from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04
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Bug description:
I am not a computer pro, so I may not be able to give you all the information 
you may desire, but=2
0I'll try my best.   
I tried to upgrade my 9 yr old Dell Inspiron 5000 laptop (Pentium chip, Bios 
A08) from Ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04 using 3 different methods: 
a) upgrade via internet connection 
b) upgrade using the "routine" 9.04 CD ROM which I downloaded and burned at work
c) upgrade using the "alternate install" 9.04 CD ROM 
In each case, the upgrade seemed to go fine, but when the system tried to boot 
up, it stopped when the progress bar was at about the 10% mark.  Rebooting 
several times did no better. 
I tried to use the recovery mode several times after each of the three 
installations, but the recovery mode boots using the 2.6.28.11 kernel would 
usually fail near the same point each time
    - udevd-event [1349] ...............................
    - udevd-event [1353] ............................... 
    - [27.903673] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad as /devices/
    - [28.166071] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics Touchpad (different installation)
    - [28.677045] - end trace 918dbcacfdbde62e    or 62c
    - [28.396219] pci.........mmio 
One time the recover mode boot froze up much later in the boot process at 
[210.064032] end trace                             20b41cbcb18a3a87
A couple of other times, I got an error message 
    init: rc-default main process (1472) terminated with status 139 
    reboot segmentation fault (1841) terminated with status 139 
Using recovery mode kernel 2.6.27.11 (internet upgrade) did slightly=2
0better and 
I arrived at the desktop once, but the next time, it also froze up early in the 
boot process.
I reinstalled Ubuntu 8.10 w/o any problems from a CD ROM, so it looks like there 
is some sort of bug in 9.04 which doesn't allow it to work with my old computer. 

Overall, I really enjoy Ubuntu and thank you all for your work. 
Hope you will be able to fix 9.04 so I can upgrade and keep up with the latest 
and best version.