Failed to Upgrade

[ryy705]

Hello,
I tried to upgrade to 9.10. It downloaded all the packages, installed them, then it said that the upgrade failed and and it will now execute the recovery process.

I rebooted the computer and this is the message I get:

init: ureadahead main process (2689) terminated with status 5
mountall:/proc: unable to mont: Device or resource busy
mountall:/proc/self/mountinfo: No such file or directory
mountall: root filesystem isn't mounted
init: mountall main process (2690) terminated with status 1
General error mounting filesystems.
A maintenance shell will now be started.
Control-D will terminate this shell and re-try.

Hitting Ctrl-D generates the same message.
This is Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop. I have Vista and Kubuntu installed on it.

Would anyone know what I have to do next? I am Stumped. Googling the error was not fruitful.
Please help.

[vinnywright]

Re: Failed to Upgrade

from the maintenance shell type

sudo fdisk -l

and hit enter.

and see witch is the linux partition that Kubuntu is on......lets say it's /dev/sda2

then if the filesystem type was ext2,ext3,ext4 type

sudo e2fsck /dev/sda2

replasing the /sda2 with whatever the first comand sead your linux partition was and try agin.

this may not fix the prob. but it cant hurt eather!!

if it dosent you can try to redo the upgrade with

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

but I'm not shure you will have net at the maintenance shell? and if you dont hat wont work but it's worth a try

VINNY

[ryy705]

Re: Failed to Upgrade

Thank you for your quick reply.
This is what I get when I do fdisk -l. Should I run the e2fsck command on sda3 ?

Device        Boot  Start     End      Blocks        ID      System
/dev/sda1           1        6        48163+      DE     Dell Utility
/dev/sda2      *     7        8586     68915039+   7      HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           8587     14341    46227037+   83     Linux
/dev/sda4           14342     14595    2024190     5      Extended
/dev/sda5           14342    14593    2024158     82     Linux Swap/Solaris

[vinnywright]

Re: Failed to Upgrade

Thank you for your quick reply.
This is what I get when I do fdisk -l. Should I run the e2fsck command on sda3 ?

Device        Boot  Start     End      Blocks        ID      System
/dev/sda1           1        6        48163+      DE     Dell Utility
/dev/sda2      *     7        8586     68915039+   7      HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           8587     14341    46227037+   83     Linux
/dev/sda4           14342     14595    2024190     5      Extended
/dev/sda5           14342    14593    2024158     82     Linux Swap/Solaris

that would be correct!

/dev/sda3

VINNY

[ryy705]

Re: Failed to Upgrade

e2fsck did not help.

I will try the update command first thing in the morning when I will have access to a wired connection.
Many thanks for your continued support.

[ryy705]

Re: Failed to Upgrade

I don't seem to have an internet connection from the command line. I'm using a wired connection.
When I run sudo apt-get update, I get a bunch of can't resolved host errors.
Kindly advice.