Re: Got totally messed up with Debian Unstable
On Monday 14 November 2005 10:58 am, All Nicks Are Taken wrote:
> Hi.
> A few of days ago I decided I want to upgrade my Sarge to Sid (unstable)
> and so I did (changed the apt sources list, as I've read in some article.)
> Couple of days ago everything worked fine, absolutely no problems; a clean
> shutdown with nothing suspicious.
> Yesterday I booted up my PC and to my surprise, everything was messed up.
> At first, I could see GDM wasn't loaded, and later I descovered that no
> partitions have been mounted except the / partition; then, I also found
> that no network is up and some modules haven't been loaded. The messages at
> the booting stage contained lots of errors...
> I tried to mount the /usr partition manually, and it went fine. also all
> the partitions I mounted manually were ok, and all the data on the HD was
> ok, including /boot (and lilo.)
> But I really don't know what to do now... Something like this has never
> happend to me.
> Here is my 'dmesg' output:
> http://metawire.org/~crux/dmesg
>
> Any idea what can I do now? I'm pretty clewless...
Let me guess... your /usr is a separate partition?
This was a bug in grep, wherein at boottime, it was searching for files
on /usr, which had yet to be mounted, making things barf all over the place.
It's also been fixed in the latest package.
Get your machine booted back up, mount the partitions, then get another
update/upgrade going, things should be fixed after that.
HTH
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...Rob
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