I launched an upgrade from Kubuntu 11.04 to 11.10 yesterday on this EeeBox. Download went just fine as expected, but somewhere in the middle of the upgrade, the updater crashed with exit code 1. When I tried to restart the upgrade, I was told that it had already successfully been done! 
And when I rebooted the computer, Kubuntu would not start anymore, not even in rescue mode. It remains blocked on starting up some services. >
Here is what I found in the last log files written when the updater crashed:
Some comments:
There's no way the install was complete in less than 6 minutes. It took 30 minutes on a much faster computer.
In main.log, I can see that there was some kind of I/O error ("Erreur d'entrée/sortie" in French). Only then did I remember that the system partition is not that big: 12 GB. However after the crash (and apparently with some new packages installed and the old ones still in place), 5.2 GB are used, 6.1 GB are free. No problem with inodes either.
In history.log, I can see that dpkg itself crashed. I have no idea if this has any relation with the I/O error (or maybe the I/O error is just the updater losing contact with the dpkg it had launched?).
In apt-term.log, I can see that the last package handled by dpkg was gcc-4.6-base_4.6.1-9ubuntu3_i386.deb. The "Unknown media type" errors are probably not related to my crash, as I saw lots of them when I upgraded my other computer, without issues.
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Now, on to the boot issue. Thanks to the SysRq kernel feature I was able to properly unmount the partitions and power off, so I have some log files. Here are the last lines of the most recent ones (all written in the same last minute):
My comment:
Apparently, there is an IPv6 issue, is there a way to disable that, I don't use it? I am connected to the Internet through a cable modem router provided to me by my ISP. I connect to that router using an Ethernet cable, as far as I know the router only handles IPv4.
Any kernel option and similar grub2 trick is welcome.
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Another possibility would be to chroot into Kubuntu from my current GRML USB key, and try to fix the upgrade from there. Would that have any chance of working? GRML uses Linux 2.6.38, that might be too old for some binaries in the chroot?
Anyway, I'm going to start torrenting the Kubuntu CD, waiting for your answers. And sorry for the big wall of text!
And when I rebooted the computer, Kubuntu would not start anymore, not even in rescue mode. It remains blocked on starting up some services. >Here is what I found in the last log files written when the updater crashed:
Originally posted by /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log
Originally posted by /var/log/dist-upgrade/history.log
Originally posted by /var/log/dist-upgrade/apt-term.log
There's no way the install was complete in less than 6 minutes. It took 30 minutes on a much faster computer.
In main.log, I can see that there was some kind of I/O error ("Erreur d'entrée/sortie" in French). Only then did I remember that the system partition is not that big: 12 GB. However after the crash (and apparently with some new packages installed and the old ones still in place), 5.2 GB are used, 6.1 GB are free. No problem with inodes either.
In history.log, I can see that dpkg itself crashed. I have no idea if this has any relation with the I/O error (or maybe the I/O error is just the updater losing contact with the dpkg it had launched?).
In apt-term.log, I can see that the last package handled by dpkg was gcc-4.6-base_4.6.1-9ubuntu3_i386.deb. The "Unknown media type" errors are probably not related to my crash, as I saw lots of them when I upgraded my other computer, without issues.
_________________________________________________
Now, on to the boot issue. Thanks to the SysRq kernel feature I was able to properly unmount the partitions and power off, so I have some log files. Here are the last lines of the most recent ones (all written in the same last minute):
Originally posted by /var/log/boot.log at 22:19:19
Originally posted by /var/log/auth.log
Originally posted by /var/log/syslog
Originally posted by /var/log/kern.log
Apparently, there is an IPv6 issue, is there a way to disable that, I don't use it? I am connected to the Internet through a cable modem router provided to me by my ISP. I connect to that router using an Ethernet cable, as far as I know the router only handles IPv4.
Any kernel option and similar grub2 trick is welcome.
_________________________________________________
Another possibility would be to chroot into Kubuntu from my current GRML USB key, and try to fix the upgrade from there. Would that have any chance of working? GRML uses Linux 2.6.38, that might be too old for some binaries in the chroot?
Anyway, I'm going to start torrenting the Kubuntu CD, waiting for your answers. And sorry for the big wall of text!
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