Does not boot after Upgrade to Lucid 10.04

Bug #573776 reported by Tony Pursell
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Bug Description

I used Update Manager to upgrade from Karmic 09.10 to Lucid 10.04.

After selecting Linux in the Grub menu it displays a Xubuntu splash screen then hangs. (In Karmic it booted to Gnome, although I do have the Xubuntu package installed - except in so far as I had to delete xubuntu-desktop package to work round a bug in the upgrade.)

Using Ctrl-Alt-F1 I see an error message. A picture of this screen is attached. I am also attaching syslog and Xorg.0.log obtained using Lucid on a USB stick, which boots OK.

I cannot boot into Recovery mode or using a previous kernel.

Tags: kj-triage
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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) wrote :
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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) wrote :

syslog

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) wrote :

Xorg.0.log

tags: added: kj-triage
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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) wrote :

I can boot in recovery mode with kernel 2.6.27-11 and from there get into a console to log in as myself. But kernels 2.6.{32,31}-21 do not boot in any mode.

Tony

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) wrote :

I have deleted the Xorg.o.log because it was not the log generated on re-boot after the distribution upgrade to Lucid.

In fact the boot does not get far enough to generate an Xorg log.

This means that it is probably not a duplicate of bug #562843 so I am unlinking it from that bug as well.

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) wrote :

Same for syslog

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) wrote :

I have uploaded an image of what I see when a do Up-Arrow on the boot screen.

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Daniel Drummond (dmdrummondx) wrote :

Can you post some information on what partitions you have, what filesystems they are, and their mount points? In BootScreen.jpg it seems to show that dosfsck is failing to scan /dev/sda2, and is complaining with "Logical sector size is zero", which could mean some kind of corruption in the partition table. If /dev/sda2 is an important partition, the system may not be booting because it cannot mount it.

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) wrote :

Here is my fstab:-

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda6 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=f9bfad14-822c-4d76-9858-eec8ec9da34e / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro,relatime 0 1
# /dev/sda10 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=5c281ed5-8cda-4cd7-b861-459661330936 /home ext3 defaults,relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda1 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=3A477A7877FD2009 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/sda2 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda3 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=3432-CEA4 /media/sda3 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda7 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=7d112a2d-096b-4b26-a662-6033d0496b4e /tmp ext3 defaults,relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda8 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=8a12909c-db05-4f05-865a-5e2b271aa991 /usr ext3 defaults,relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda9 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=347787c3-926d-4a46-8d70-1df786c06b46 /var ext3 defaults,relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda5 -- converted during upgrade to edgy
UUID=3b92e0e2-0612-4bfb-9408-6484c8bfa8d3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

/dev/sda2 is a windows partition that contains recovery data. It has never mounted in Ubuntu. /dev/sda1 is the main NTFS partition in Windows and /dev/sda3 is a small FAT32 partition I created to share data with Windows in the days when writing to NTFS from Linux was considered unreliable. All the partitions are recognised by the live USB system, except for /dev/sda2.

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) wrote :

I have been forced to re-install Lucid, now it boots but there are problems with the Window Decoration (see bug #587689)

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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

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status: New → Invalid
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