unable to upgrade to 12.2 from 12.1

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#1

Hello,
After upgrading in the past this desktop right now I’m not able to upgrade it to 12.2 from 12.1( KDE). (In the past I had issues with it to restart because my grub was missing some vital info, which were fixed with this forum’s support). Anyway this time I receive a message like this:
The root partition in /etc/fstab has an invalid root device. It is currently mounted as /dev/sda1 but listed as none.
See the SDB article at Update Fails: Partitions Cannot Be Mounted for details about how to solve this problem.
and then by clicking ok I receive an error : Failed to mount target system.
My only option is to reboot which brings me back to 12.1
I tried to follow the instructions which were relevant for my case but still without success. I did a backup of everything I need and with your help I will try to upgrade and if not successfull I will wipe out everything and start over again. The disk(network installation) had no issues as i used to upgrade successfully another desktop.
here are the contents of my /etc/fstab file:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS5C3020ALA632_ML4220F318T4VK-part3        /home   ext4    defaults 1 2 
#//192.168.1.1/australia        /media/australia        cifs    credentials=/home/dan/.ssh/.creds,_netdev,uid=dan,gid=users     0 0
proc    /proc   proc    defaults 0 0 
sysfs   /sys    sysfs   noauto 0 0 
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug       debugfs noauto 0 0 
usbfs   /proc/bus/usb   usbfs   noauto 0 0 
devpts  /dev/pts        devpts  mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 
#bonaire:/home/dan      /mnt    nfs     defaults 0 0

as noted there were couple of things commented out(external partitions). but w/o success. Thanks for your help in advance.

#2

If this is full /etc/fstab, line for root filesystem is missing. Which seems to be exactly what installer complaints about.

#3

Thank you for noticing that. Now that you pointed the discrepancy to me to me it makes sense. I looked in /dev/disk/by-id directory and found the other partitions(missing from this file, which I added manually.First question would be how did they disappear? which might be not be that relevant(and might explain the issues I had in the past to upgrade the kernel and grub would be messed up.
Second is more important to be able to update. What are the parameters needed? Can I find them anywhere else9another configuration file to ensure that they are correct?
so I added the 2 lines on top:


/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS5C3020ALA632_ML4220F318T4VK-part2        swap    swap    defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS5C3020ALA632_ML4220F318T4VK-part1        /       ext4    defaults 1 1 

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS5C3020ALA632_ML4220F318T4VK-part3        /home   ext4    defaults 1 2 
#//192.168.1.1/australia        /media/australia        cifs    credentials=/home/dan/.ssh/.creds,_netdev,uid=dan,gid=users     0 0
proc    /proc   proc    defaults 0 0 
sysfs   /sys    sysfs   noauto 0 0 
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug       debugfs noauto 0 0 
usbfs   /proc/bus/usb   usbfs   noauto 0 0 
devpts  /dev/pts        devpts  mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 
#bonaire:/home/dan      /mnt    nfs     defaults 0 0

I think the swap partition is ok as I have it the identical on 2 other installations. I wonder if for the root partition(part1) the third parameter defaults is correct or should be in sync with another configuration somewhere else.
As a note on the other machines I have it as acl,user_xattr. Any instructions /comments are welcome. Thanks again arvidjaar for opening my eyes on the issue.

#4

My fstab from a clean 12.2 is

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MJA2250BH_G2_K95CT9A2D4UF-part2 swap                 swap       defaults              0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MJA2250BH_G2_K95CT9A2D4UF-part5 /                    ext4       acl,user_xattr        1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-FUJITSU_MJA2250BH_G2_K95CT9A2D4UF-part6 /home                ext4       defaults              1 2
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0
#5

Got it working with the changes applied to the fstab file at caf’s suggestion. I noticed some warnings in the upgrading which are probably related to the problems I have with grub/booloader everytime i had a kernel change but It upgraded successfully. Perl-bootloader was complaining that it couldn’t find the partition

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HDS5C3020ALA632_ML4220F318T4VK-part1
Should i insist on this warning which might be usefull for other people? I don’t know but if someone things I should I will open a new thread.

#6

There is possibly some confusion in the system as a result of the original upgrade and the corrections made

I’m not sure where to start looking.