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Boot problem after new kernel update - 2.6.32-24.42

Asked by Jonathan Gossage

This morning I ran "Update Manager" on 10.04 desktop and it updated my kernel and header files from 2.6.32-24.41 to 2.6.32-24.42. After I rebooted I was dropped into a recovery shell where I was told the following:

"Gave up waiting for root device"
"Waiting for /dev/mapper/Data1-RootLV"

Data1-RootLV was not present in /dev/mapper and doing cat /proc/cmdline showed that "root=/dev/mapper/Data1-RootLV"

I was able to reboot my system with an earlier kernel (2.6.32-23) so it appears that the update process corrupted some kernel files. Can anyone suggest what I need to do to repair this situation other than permanently reverting to 2.6.32.23?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Log a bug, if you boot to the older kernel does it boot?

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Jonathan Gossage (jgossage) said : 		#2

Yes it does. I am working normally using the older kernel. I was wondering whether there is any additional trouble-shooting I can do to make a bug report more useful. I have no experience in Linux kernel/boot sequence trouble-shooting.

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#3

Apport will collect the info for you and ask additional questions. After the upload maybe it'll show you some similar bug reports already submitted, if not create your own bug report.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/KernelTeamBugPolicies

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Sam_ (and-sam) said : 		#4

btw. regarding 2.6.32-24.42, seems you've enabled proposed repository, which implies in case to deal with consequences.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#Ubuntu%20Updates

The stable one at the moment is 2.6.32-24.41.

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