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Jaunty to Karmic fails during acpi upgrade

Asked by John2

Hello all,

I have been trying to upgrade Jaunty to Karmic several times, but every time the terminal says there is an error as the LSB information is missing. Since I am a Linux newbie, I am not sure what that means, however I believe it's related to ACPI file replacements during the upgrade process.

The effect is that the installation stops and computer crashes. I have tried the upgrade several times, using the update manager within Jaunty, and with different pre-conditions (upgrade form an updated jaunty, upgraded from a freshly installed jaunty) but the outcome is always the same.

I am not able to provide the exact output, because the computer crashes every time and all I can do is to force a shut down.

I have tried to upgrade to Karmic on a Toshiba Satellite Pro Centrino Core 2 Duo (2.0 GHz) with 2 GB RAM. The chosen partition resides on an external HDD (in this respect Jaunty gave me no problems).

I am not sure whether this is a problem of my computer or rather a bug, so I hope someone can give me more insight.

Thank you in advance.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try disabling ACPI, see if its any better. You can edit the boot by pressing E when grub2 loads to add the option to disable ACPI. You should now get an OK boot. Maybe some later updates (or the official release) will make it ok.

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John2 (humright2) said : 		#2

Thank you for your answer.

I have tried the upgrade from within Jaunty, and I don't have a Karmic CD.

Is there any way I can do what you described above using Jaunty's upgrade manager?

If I disable acpi support when installing Jaunty, will it be restored when upgrading?

Thank you again.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

If you disble it via the kernel option thern it will be diabled until you re-enable it, yu could just disable it for the duration of the upgrade.

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John2 (humright2) said : 		#4

That's interesting.

I have two questions about this:

1. How can I do this? I have never acted on the kernel so far, and I would like to make sure I don't mess it up.

2. During the upgrade the kernel image is replaced with a new one. I am pretty sure of this because I saw it in the terminal. This being the case, will the acpi=off instruction be disregarded when overwriting the new kernel image?

Thank you.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

its not replaced, the old kernels will still exist until you uninstall them, the default kernel will be the karmic one.

If you press esc when grub loads to show the grub menu, you can press E to edit the line, scroll to the end of the kernel line and add:

acpi=off

then continue the boot

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John2 (humright2) said : 		#6

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.