Linux

I was asked if I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of Ubuntu, I ticked the box, the laptop whirred.

It broke, will not boot.

Is rolling back an upgrade a simple matter?

does system restore work over the whole pooter or is that just a windows thing?

google tells me there is no system restore for linux..

Boot the system and get this:

Press "S" get this:

Then it hangs on this screen:

So- what to do?

boot from disk and try if you can mount the HD, and if not, see why not.

Do you have your files backed up?

If so... install new version, restore files.

Ok, scorched earth it is.

Linux is only free if your time isn't worth anything.

Dammit, you really do have the Anti-Midas touch with electronic gadgets don't you? #zap #kapow #kablammo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0IgEjIuxkQ

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Choose M, find out what device you need to mount, mount it and carry on your merry way.
Once it's booted, fix it properly.
It's times like these that I keep a network-bootable installation handy (my SSD is a bit broken and randomly corrupts things so it's handy for an xfs_repair if nothing else).

Linux is only free if your time isn't worth anything.

Orly? My PC boots quicker that any PC with a Windows OS installed, also shuts down quicker without any fuss.

Despite my trust in the reliability of Linux/Ubuntu I have partitioned my HD it a few different pieces - one 360GB for all my stuff (music, films, pictures, documents) ansd another much smaller one of 50GB to keep the OS and all the programs. So if anything does go wrong with the OS removing all my files is piss easy

Debian boots quicker than my BIOS now I have an SSD :(

FFs. Does anyone have a cure for my PC? Running Ubuntu 10 so all the bugs should have been sorted by now. I never have a problem with anyone else's PC and the same setup.

My problem - npviewer.bin keeps crashing whenever I leave a web page packed with flash and one particular forum (I guess it must have flash in there somewhere) It doesn't happen all the time but 90% of the time. When I first upgraded from 9 to 10 it would do it for the slightest of things - youtube for example. I've tried the Ubuntu forums but couldn't find any similar cases and the thread I made was missed.

It's not critical but it's rather annoying. And as I'm not upgrading from 10 to 11 soon I may notice the difference

Choose M, find out what device you need to mount, mount it and carry on your merry way.
Once it's booted, fix it properly.
It's times like these that I keep a network-bootable installation handy (my SSD is a bit broken and randomly corrupts things so it's handy for an xfs_repair if nothing else).

Now the problem may be that I was with you as far as "Choose M", then the next bit lost me.

How am I meant to discover what I need to mount?

Dammit, you really do have the Anti-Midas touch with electronic gadgets don't you? #zap #kapow #kablammo

I don't know- what else has gone wrong?

My guess is that you mean my phone- but everything that has gone wrong with that is a known fault if you Google it, it's just a badly designed phone.

if you look at /etc/fstab there will be entries in there which will tell the boot scripts what device mounts where.

Chances are that the devices listed in that file can't be found, either because they've changed name for some reason or because the kernel isn't detecting them.

You can compare what's in the file to the entries under /sys/block/ and try and work out what happened.

Looking at the kernel bootup messages may be of some help too (see the dmesg command)

I am liking the new version of Ubuntu
Its almost as good as a Mac

I have a live cd of the latest release, Tiswas I will pay in fine coffee and icecream if you can pop over and fix it?

@Dammit

When booting up press and hold shift (you might not need to if you dual boot) to get into Grub Menu :

Highlight highest kernel version recovery mode entry and hit Enter. Keep an eye out for any errors / warnings while kernel is loaded into memory.
If you do get login prompt (text-mode), then login with your username / password and run the following commands :

[code]sudo fdisk -l [/code]
[code]cat /etc/fstab[/code]
[code]cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg[/code]
Post output of each command here

I am liking the new version of Ubuntu
Its almost as good as a Mac

With Gnome(3)-Shell!

Unity is crap.

We get here (post login) then everything hangs:

Sadly the only machine I have with a CD drive is the one in the picture

Dammit try changing your session type to 'Ubuntu Classic' from the GDM login screen. If that works then it's just Unity that is causing problems for you. If 'Ubuntu Classic' hangs in a similar fashion then yes you have a bad install.