Insttallation Failed won't reboot

[em21701]

I left my PC to upgrade from Edgy to Feisty overnight friday. When I got up this morning the installation had failed. I restarted the machine hoping that no files had been over-written. I was wrong! Now I can't even boot to a console. I have downloaded the alternate install iso and burned it to a disk hoping that I could upgrade from there. After more reading tonight it looks like I would still need to be able to boot edgy for that to work. Any one have any ideas? I'm stuck surfing with the wifes MS machine

Thanks in advance,
Eric

[lewisdw]

Re: Insttallation Failed won't reboot

Not trying to hijack, but I'm in the same boat. After rebooting, the boot screen shows the following:

* init:/etc/event.d/tty6:13:unknown stanza
udevd[2124]: add_to_rules: PHYSDEV* values are deprecated and will be removed from a future kernel, please fix it in /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules:17
(a few more lines similar to the last one)
* Activating swap...
* Checking root file system...
fschk 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)  [OK]
/dev/sda1: clean, ...
* Checking file systems...
fschk 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)  [OK]

and that's it, it's sat like that for hours
Is there a way to do an upgrade install or a repair install or similar and recover from this?

Wayne

[uuii]

Re: Insttallation Failed won't reboot

Same thing.... Updater got frozen, KDE crashed. After reboot got
* init:/etc/event.d/tty6:13:unknown stanza
udevd[2124]: add_to_rules: PHYSDEV* values are deprecated and will be removed from a future kernel, please fix it in /etc/udev/rules.d/40-permissions.rules:17
and so on...
What to do?

[em21701]

Re: Insttallation Failed won't reboot

This is starting to look like a common problem to me. My error screen looks the same.

[tred]

Installation Failed won't reboot

Very similar for me as well, except "tty2:13" and "udevd[2014]"

init:/etc/event.d/tty2:13:unknown stanza
udevd[2014]: add_to_rules: PHYSDEV* values are deprecated

Any help out there? Please...

[theseeker]

Re: Insttallation Failed won't reboot

The Feisty Fawn upgrade also completely killed my machine. It had an error while updating samba (almost halfway through), now it does not boot up and I get

1) Errors from init about /etc/event.d/tty1 through tty5, control-alt-delete,logd,sulogin about "Unknown stanza"
2) udevd complaining that PHYSDEV* rules are deprecated
3) udevd error "specified group 'nvram' unknown'
4) udevd could not find "60-libpisock.rules"
5) udevd deprecated a direct reference to sysfs directories in 65-persistent-storage.rules

I am contemplating wiping it and doing a reinstall. This is very frustrating! There should be a way for it to back out of an install once it finds an error!

[em21701]

Re: Insttallation Failed won't reboot

I tried to install over the top of my existing installation but it wants to re-partition my hard drive. I don't want to loose all my files! I hope there is someone that can help us!

[pwabrahams]

Upgrading using the DVD

I saw the same thing and have already started a new thread about it: how to upgrade using the DVD.