Re: Cannot boot after distro upgrade (SOLVED)

[Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs>]

On 9/2/19 5:39 PM, Reco wrote:
> 	Hi.
>
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 04:44:18PM +0200, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> > On 9/2/19 10:28 AM, Reco wrote:
> >
> > > Judging from the pictures, it's the ext4 filesystem.
> > > So, let's proceed to the destructive steps:
> > >
> > > fsck.ext4 -f /dev/localhost/tmp
> > > mount -t ext4 /dev/localhost/tmp /tmp
> > > umount /tmp
> > > fsck.ext4 -f /dev/localhost/tmp
> > >
> > > If the mounting succeeds, change filesystem type to ext4 for /tmp in
> > > /etc/fstab, and do the same for /home.
> >
> > New pictures ... looked to me as the second command (mount) failed.
> >
> > Btw, somewhere it suggested 'dmesg | tail' so I inserted it too.
>
> Ok, plan B.
>
> Comment out both /home and /tmp from fstab.
> Reboot. It should give you both the console and the network.
> Install fresh stretch kernel (version 4.9.0-9), reboot.
> Try mounting /tmp afterwards.
>
> Reco

Reco,

Thanks, success! Btw, since I don't not have broadband on my place where 
I read your plan B, I went to another place and did it slightly 
differently: I installed the new kernel (without prior commenting out 
/home and /tmp from fstab), then rebooted. The machine still reported 
the same errors as before - but after I changed fstab params for /home 
and /tmp to be ext4, it mounted them in a second. Subsequent rebooting 
was OK too. Will observe the behaviour in days to come.

Now I suppose that the above commands (plan A) are not needed. However, 
I wonder whether the other partitions (/, /usr, /var) shall remain ext3 
in fstab, or they shall be changed to ext4 too.

Misko