After upgrading from 11.4 (Tumbleweed) the system (Lenovo M91p) is stuck immediately after boot.
It displays "GRUB " with the cursor blinking.
Any pointers/ideas?
Thx
Try reinstalling as shown here
Re-Install Grub Quickly with Parted Magic
But we may need to dig deeper if that doesn’t work
Did you know that Tumbleweed has moved from 11.4 to 12.1 and is now empty. It looks like a badly broken /boot/grub. Btw Tumble weed is experimental and like the developmental (miles stones) one should expect a broken system.now and then.
And I see caf4926 answered while I was writing this :shame:
This is /usr/bin/false :D. Tumbleweed is to be a rolling release. One of the main reasons to create it, is to allow users to stay up-to-date. without the risks of bleeding edge, or Factory. Tumbleweed is supposed to be as stable as the distro itself. One should not expect Tumbleweed to be broken
Thanks! Unfortunately I do not get to the prompt with PartedMagic 4.5.
(Tried “Default settings” (1), “Failsafe Settings” (7) and “Console” (9))
PartedMagic 4.5 mounts /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 fine but seems to be
irritated by partition /dev/sdb4 (“attempt to access beyond end of device”).
I guess I remove /dev/sdb temporarily and try again.
removing the disk gave a prompt and following your instructions on the
pointer you have given worked nicely and after an intermittent glitch:
(german) “Fehler Für diesen Installationsmodus ist kein Arbeitsablauf definiert.”
(my translation) “Error For this installation mode there is no procedure defined”
the system boots. Fine!)
Just for the record: /dev/sdb4 is an extended partition which holds a single
partition /dev/sdb5 (this partition is not formatted).
Seems to have been only the first part of the odyssey though.
The system does not let me log in as a user.
It correctly displays my user name of the upgraded installation
but does not let me log in.
/etc/shadow does neither contain my previous user name
nor the user name that was entered during the upgrade procedure
(I likely should have quit when being asked for a user name during
an upgrade. I was hesitating and tried to get away without
providing new user name and password but the installer would not let me.
Something is broken there.)
/etc/shadow contains neither the user name of the previous installation
nor the newly provided user name.
There luckily is /etc/shadow.old which is 4 minutes older than
/etc/shadow BUT this does neither contain the user name of the
previous installation nor the newly provided user name either!
Also there is /etc/passwd.old which is 1 minute older than
/etc/passwd but they also contain neither names.
No harm is done for me but this is anything but a smooth upgrade.
Giving up for today.
On 2011-11-17 21:46, Knurpht wrote:
>
> dale14846;2405165 Wrote:
>> Btw Tumble weed is experimental and like the developmental (miles
>> stones) one should expect a broken system.
>
> This is /usr/bin/false :D. Tumbleweed is to be a rolling release. One
> of the main reasons to create it, is to allow users to stay up-to-date.
> without the risks of bleeding edge, or Factory. Tumbleweed is supposed
> to be as stable as the distro itself. One should not expect Tumbleweed
> to be broken
No, no.
Tumbleweed goes a step behind Factory. It is experimental on two senses: a)
that the maintainer is learning how to do things, experimenting, and b) it
is more stable than factory but less than 11.4 or 12.1. It is very close to
factory, thus also experimental.
So, yes, IMNSHO tumbleweed is expected to break now and then.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On 2011-11-17 22:56, frief wrote:
> /etc/shadow does neither contain my previous user name
> nor the user name that was entered during the upgrade procedure
> (I likely should have quit when being asked for a user name during
> an upgrade. I was hesitating and tried to get away without
> providing new user name and password but the installer would not let
> me.
> Something is broken there.)
It asked you to create a new user during the upgrade? That is not part of
the process. I’ve never seen it.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)