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Can not boot after a terminated upgrade
I have moved my HDD with Ubuntu 12.04 to a new PC, but the wired LAN didn't worked, so I have booted the computer from a 13.04 USB stick to see if it is working there (it works), and started the ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 not booting after upgrade from 12.10
This is duplicate post from here
After upgrading to 13.04, I was able to boot into ubuntu.
I made change a line in grub from
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
to
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Ubuntu 13.04 is not booting
I have upgraded today Ubunutu 12.04 Lts to 12.10 and then to 13.04.
After issue with brightness. I have followed serdotlinecho and added GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_backlight=vendor" to grub config.
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boot-folder too small for upgrade from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04
When updating my Ubuntu from 12.10 to 13.04 I get the message
'Your boot folder is too small, make more space'
although my harddrive has still plenty of place left.
How can I make that boot ...
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Boot randomly fails after upgrading to 13.04
A few days ago I upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 LTS to 12.10 and then 12.10 to 13.04. After doing that, all things work perfectly, but sometimes the boot process hangs. It doesn't happen every time I ...
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Upgraded to 13.04, cannot boot
I just got through an upgrade to 13.04 and my machine won't reboot. After getting through the boot loader screen, I just get a completely blank display.
What can I do to boot with a console instead ...
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boot - Ubuntu hangs at purple screen after upgrade to 13.04
I was using Ubuntu 12.10 and upgraded to 13.04
Now Ubuntu just hangs at purple screen.
I have tried installed KDM and switched to KDM. I get the login prompt at KDM but login fails and shows up ...
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(K)ubuntu doesn't boot after release upgrade
I upgraded Kubuntu from 12.10 to 13.04 via the do-release-upgrade command. However, the system won't boot anymore after that. When I start the computer, it will go past the BIOS screen (I checked the ...
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Ubuntu upgrade 12.04 drive not ready
I Just Upgraded from update manager to Ubuntu 12.04. The instalation seemed to go well until it restarted. I get this message:
The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present
I can wait, press ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit won't boot, freezes on black screen
don't know much about Ubuntu but will try to be as specific as possible. After updating from 12.10 it auto-restarted, the screen went to black and froze there. I restarted it manually and got to the ...
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no boot after upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS … hangs with Microcode SW error
I tried to upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS on my laptop (Fujitsu/Siemens Esprimo Mobile with 2 GB of RAM and an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor). I did it just 2 days ago before the support on Ubuntu ...
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Ubuntu not booting after upgrade failed [from quantal to raring]
I am having a big time getting my laptop to boot again. I have launch the upgrade process yesterday before going to sleep and today upon waking up, I saw that the upgrade somehow failed to complete ...
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Ubuntu upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 failed (interrupted) - cannot access Ubuntu
Ubuntu upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 -> failed (interrupted) and now I want to get my data back. Is there any way, without uninstalling the Wubi?
How it happened:
13.04 decides to download around 1 GB ...
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Can't boot up my laptop after upgrade to (K)ubuntu 13.04
Yesterday I did a 'do-release-upgrade' from my laptop (HP DV-6) running flawlessly Kubuntu 12.10, to 13.04. Upgrade process ended up with no errors.
But now, when laptop boots normally, hangs during ...
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Upgrading from 12.04 to 12.10 resulted in boot process sticking with “The disk drive for /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 is not ready or present”
I just performed an upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10, and everything seemed to go as expected. As the upgrade was finishing I was asked to restart the computer, which I did. Once I restarted, however, the ...
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Ubuntu became Kubuntu after upgrading to 13.04!
I recently updated my Ubuntu 12.10 setup to 13.04 using sudo do-release-upgrade.
After going through the process and rebooting, I was a little confused by the GRUB menu showing a "Kubuntu" option ...
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Tried updating from version 11 to version 12. It was interrupted now will not boot properly
I tried upgrading laptop with version 11 to version 12. Must have been interrupted.
will not give me anything other than the following:
mountall:/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6:version 'GLIBC_2.14' ...
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1answer
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Newbie. Cannot upgrade to 12.04
I am trying to use Ubuntu over Windows XP on my home computer but have completely fubared it.
I first loaded an old disc I had of version 8.xxx. It loaded fine and seemed to be running well. I ran ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 update didn't go well, OS is messed app
I tried to update my Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10. The update downloaded the needed files and then started setting up the packages. Suddenly, I saw some weird things on the screen, and then I didn't have any ...
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Boot failure after upgrade /dev/mapper/isw…Volume01 does not exist
I upgraded to 12.04 and now my system won't boot. It complains about /dev/mapper/isw...Volume01 does not exist and drops me to busybox.
cat /proc/cmdline tells me it is indeed trying Volume01.
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upgrade gone bad, no ubuntu, no upgrade, no windows
I have a hand me down laptop that I don't know the windows password for. Ubuntu worked fine until I allowed it to update. Sadly, it got stuck for hours then shut off and when I turned it on it will ...
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Problems booting 12.04.2 after update
I recently bought parts for a small mediacenter PC, and planned on running ubuntu with XBMC. I'm having massive problems with installing ubuntu and thinking about switching to windows (worst case).
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Messed up partitions after 11.04 upgrade
I wanted to upgrade my old 10.10 to 12.04 using alternate CD, and had to upgrade to 11.04 first. Unfortunately I ran into the following error after upgrading and rebooting to ubuntu :
the disk ...
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Ubuntu all screwy after dist-upgrade. How do I revert the damage? [closed]
After last night's kernel upgrade I'm getting the following symptoms:
After restarting computer several times.
One of my screens (always the same one) is split down the middle. Not always in the ...
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12.10 won't boot on EFI
I had 12.04 LTS 32 bit alongside Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit. Windows uses EFI. When I noticed that I had Ubuntu in 32 bit I decided to install 12.10 64 bit. I wanted to install an upgrade to keep ...
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Ubuntu is booting into terminal instead of GUI Interface
I recently upgraded my computer to Ubuntu 12.04 from 10.04 and it started messing up, as in, freezing up on certain programs and then randomly logging out and going to the log-in screen. I've done ...
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After upgrading to Kubuntu 12.10, machine boots directly to Memtest86
I have upgraded a virtual machine running Kubuntu 12.04 to 12.10. After the upgrade completed, I can no longer boot into the OS. After POST, I see three "error: file not found." lines, and Memtest86+ ...
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failed the upgrade and can't start Ubuntu [closed]
Tried upgrading to 12.04. Finished downloading all the packages and installation, saw a bunch of error messages, but went ahead with reboot as instructed. It says
"** (plymouthd: 375): warning **: ...
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Disk drive for / not ready on boot after upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04
After upgrading (using the Upgrade button from the update manager) from 10.04.4 to 12.04.1, I cannot boot anymore. Upon booting, I am greeted with the Ubuntu logo and the error "The disk drive for / ...
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After upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04, system is not booting, showing “running in low graphics mode” [closed]
I have been using 10.10 for 2 years. I keep getting upgrade messages for a long time so today, I finally upgraded it to 11.04.
But, when the upgrade was completed, it got restarted and it is shows ...
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Upgrade to 12.04 LTS failed, unable to boot
I was trying to upgrade to 12.04 LTS, but the upgrade froze in the process (it was stuck for over 8 hours) and I had to do a hard reboot. Now when I boot up, I get the following:
mountall ...
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Booting trouble after upgrade to 12.10 on a Dell XPS 15z
Before the upgrade, booting did not work out of the box, but this site told me to put "acpi=noirq" before "quiet splash" in the commands befre startup, and edit /etc/default/grub too. This worked ...
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Did the upgrade kill my computer, or is this just a horrible coincidence? [closed]
I have a laptop that I have used for many years, and it has had Ubuntu on it since maybe version 8.04 or so.
This morning I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10. The upgrade process went perfectly smoothly ...
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I cannot boot into Ubuntu 12.10 after upgrade from 12.04.
I'm using Ubuntu alongside Windows 7.
The upgrade went fine but after reboot I'm getting grub prompt that says grub>
How can I get Ubuntu back without losing Windows 7?
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Unable to boot post upgrade to 12.10 from 12.04 on a dual boot PC
I have a dual boot PC with Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Last night I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 and since then I have not been able to boot because the PC goes into grub rescue with the error "File not ...
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12.04 to12.10 “upgrade” and no boot activity
Upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10 today on Toshiba Satellite L505D, AMD64 processor, now I have no boot activity when I power on, everything seemed like a clean upgrade, until restart, then nothing, it ...
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Initial Purple Boot Screen is text not Image in 12.10
Since the upgrade on the Purple boot screen I am getting a simple text Ubuntu 12.10 over 4 small pulsing dots
in 12.04 I was getting an image and not text- does this mean anything is wrong?
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Lost power during upgrade; now unusually long time to boot, but can boot previous version
I was upgrading from 10 to 11.10 the other day when it shut down during the upgrade. When I boot my computer, it asks me to pick from a few options. If I go with the first choice, it takes an ...
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Failed server upgrade to 12.04 (RAID 1 needs to be mounted)
I attempted to update my headless server to Precise Pangolin 12.04 restarted the box and get error message "kernel panic not syncing vfs unable to mount root fs on unknown block oo swapper not ...
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The disk drive for / is not ready yet or not present
Unfortunately I experienced a power failure during an update from Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS to 12.04 LTS (it was a power failure of more then 40 minutes so batteries charge of the UPS weren't enough).
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Is there a way to revert my Lubuntu to the “Previous Linux version” at the boot menu
Today, after some auto upgrade i think, my Lubuntu boot to a blank wallpaper and wrong graphich display. If I boot my computer again, instead of select the first line in the boot menu, I select ...
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How do I make Ubuntu go past the splash screen?
I recently upgraded my desktop mac to Precise and now can't get past the Ubuntu 12.04 splash page. The splash freezes with Ubuntu and the dots turning from white to orange forever.
This is when I ...
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I can't boot system after upgrade from 10.04 to 12.04
Yesterday I upgraded a server from 10.04 to 12.04. I do not detect any problem but when rebooting system, a message appears saying that it could not mount partitions. In contrast, if recovery mode I ...
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How do I handle “Firmware file X not found” stopping bootup?
I recently upgraded my desktop mac to Precise and now can't get past the Ubuntu 12.04 splash page. The splash freezes with
[ 19.931097] b32-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode16_mimo.fw" not ...
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How do I access my previous ubuntu disk when booted to usb key
When prompted about the upgrade to 12.04 I clicked yes. All went well until during the cleanup mode an error appeared in the terminal that said something like "too many errors were encountered." A ...
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After kernel upgrade, unable to boot with / on lvm
I did a kernel upgrade on my desktop system from 2.6.32-41 to 2.6.32-42 using apt-get dist-upgrade. I opted not to update /boot/grub/menu.lst and added the required lines myself, based on the previous ...
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“GLIBC_2.14 not found” error after upgrading to 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ubuntu boots up maintenance shell?
I recently got an option to update to 12.04 I believe. Something went wrong and when I booted up my laptop it has the original laptop ...
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Won't boot after 12.04 upgrade [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Ubuntu won't boot after 12.04 upgrade
I am new to Ubuntu and I recently upgraded to 12.04. Now when I try to start Ubuntu nothing happens. I get a blank screen, not ...
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While upgrading from 11.10 to 12.04 unable to boot
I have upgraded Ubuntu 11.10 to 12.04 . After that I am trying to start the system and got the following error. I think that the system crashed.
mountall: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lib.so.6: version ...
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Lucid hangs at booting after kernel upgrade
This weekend, one of our servers running Lucid has installed some upgrades:
libgcrypt11 1.4.4-5ubuntu2.1
linux-firmware 1.34.14
linux-image-2.6.32-41-generic 2.6.32-41.91
linux-libc-dev 2.6.32-41.91
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