Bug#758864: Reply to Didier's questions

[Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>]

On Tue 26 Aug 2014 at 17:10:18 +0100, Jim Cobley wrote:

> Tks Brian
> 
> Have read Bug 758914
> Message 44 says fixed the install problem but "still have problem
> with CUPS" which he is not worried about as he has other CUPS
> servers he can use.
> So I didn't have the fstab / mount problem but I am no further
> forward with the CUPS issue which I am worried about because I
> cannot do a dist-upgrade.

We'll follow Didier's line of thought that this is a service problem;
some interaction between your setup and the init system.

Checking that ipv6 is operative is a matter of finding '0' in the
outputs of, for example

  cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/all/disable_ipv6
  cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/default/disable_ipv6
  cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/lo/disable_ipv6
  cat /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/eth0/disable_ipv6

I'd expect a mount problem to be circumvented by commenting out
everything in fstab except the disk being booted from.

Two things to try:

1. After doing the above, reboot and use journalctl to look and search
   for clues. Then a dist-upgrade. Any luck?

2. Reboot and at the grub menu use 'e' to edit the menu entry. At the
   end of the 'linux' line add 'init=/lib/sysvinit/init'. Press F10.
   You will now boot with sysvinit as the service manager. Dist-upgrade.
   Any joy?

Regards,

Brian.