I also did an upgrade from Feisty today, and I also encountered a flood of these:
Sep 18 13:40:24 lapedb kernel: [ 178.476000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
(my nvidia module wasn't loaded so my machine got stuck in textmode spawning this message)
So I ssh'ed to it, killed udev, removed emvs, rebooted and everything was fine.
I also did an upgrade from Feisty today, and I also encountered a flood of these:
Sep 18 13:40:24 lapedb kernel: [ 178.476000] device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
(my nvidia module wasn't loaded so my machine got stuck in textmode spawning this message)
So I ssh'ed to it, killed udev, removed emvs, rebooted and everything was fine.