Comment 12 for bug 95260
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| Matthew Craig (matthew-t-craig) wrote | #12 |
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Had this same problem with the Feisty -> Gutsy upgrade.
A Little Rant:
Update-manager should have determined there was insufficient space before starting the download!! Before it did anything else!! Instead, the upgrade critically failed mid-way through configuring all system files!!
Troubleshooting Details:
Used the Feisty LiveCD to run "gparted" and resize the /boot partition, but update-manager left the OS in such a bad state that any kernel that I tried to boot only arrived at a "BusyBox" prompt. Since grub seemed to be finding to the /boot partition correctly, but the system was not working, my next step was a complete re-install of Feisty and a new upgrade to Gutsy. This re-install and clean upgrade ultimately worked, especially now that the /boot partition is 3x the size, but I lost all of my installed applications.
More thoughts:
I think the most important thing with this bug is that it could have been prevented by checking for disk space pre-requisites. Seems like a prudent task, especially as the kernel is being modified and the system is then being rebooted, at the completion of the process.