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system crash after update ubuntu 8.04

Asked by james

hi,

y,day (5th august 08) i tried to update my 8.04 , and it fetched the updates and started to do the changes ( i did not notice specifically about the change, i think it was on Xorg + some other patches altogether less than 1 mb) then in between i noticed while it was installing the changes it was showing some files with intel etc ( my system is amd 5000 (64 bit) + asus ) etc, then the system hanged for about 2-3 minutes, then i had to switch it off manually and i tried to reboot

this time it failed to boot ( i am using 2.6.24.19 kernel). it started giving errors and again got hanged, i did try for two three times and the same thing happened. so i tried to boot it from cd and from the console i tried to clean my root with e2fsck and it reported so many errors and after fixing it all i tried to reboot and it is not coming up.

plz help

thanks
james

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This question was originally filed as bug #254846.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#2

Thanks for your question.

Could it be that your harddisk is having problem? When the system cannot write on the harddrive, it can have a behaviour that you describe, i.e. hanging.

Please use a live-CD and try to check out if the harddrive is ok or not.

If the harddrive is ok, you should be able to mount the partition. Please retrieve the information in /var/log/dist-upgrade and convert the attached bug report back to a bug report, and upload the files in that folder. This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

Hope this helps.

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james (jamesvar-70) said : 		#3

thanks ralph,

i am able to mount all the partitions using the live cd, i shall write down the message i get while booting:

init: unable to to execute /bin/sh for rcs : no such file or directory
init: rcs main process (2703) terminated with status 255
init: unable to to execute /bin/sh for rc-default : no such file or directory
init: rc-default main process (2704) terminated with status 255

i have been using 'hardy' for the last three months, and this problem happened y'day only.
if you still want me to load the old /var/log/dist-upgrade i shall load it, (i cud see that after mounting my root)

hope i cud get some help now

thanks in advance

james

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james (jamesvar-70) said : 		#4

hi,
i have gone for a re-installation. thanks
james