Hi, Acronis showed that the only bootable partition was for my windows 2000 installation. The ubuntu partition that had been present had been removed apparently during the upgrade. I had been working my way through upgrades from V8.04 LTS. V8.10 upgraded, then 9.04 upgrade caused the problem. I'm sure I rebooted between upgrades.
I have now successfully upgraded from a CD with V9.10. Regards, Steve ________________________________ From: Michael Vogt <michael.v...@ubuntu.com> To: mccar...@yahoo.co.uk Sent: Mon, 2 November, 2009 10:32:49 Subject: [Bug 468451] Re: ubuntu update to 9.04 failed to boot correctly - stuck at swap file load Here is the error: Unpacking replacement memtest86+ ...^M dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/memtest86+_2.01-1ubuntu2_i386.deb (--unpack):^M unable to make backup link of `./boot/memtest86+.bin' before installing new version: Operation not permitted^M Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub^M Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default^M Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst^M Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...^M Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-15-generic^M Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-24-generic^M Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic^M Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin^M Replacing config file /var/run/grub/menu.lst with new version^M Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done^M ^M Your bugreport suggests that your parition table was gone after the upgrade? Is that correct? ** Changed in: update-manager (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- ubuntu update to 9.04 failed to boot correctly - stuck at swap file load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/468451 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: update-manager After update completed with errors, the next reboot stopped at the swap file message. I ran acronis on my disk and found that there was only my windows partition and around 58Mb of unallocated space. I assume this was not the ubuntu partition or swap file space. I have run fixmbr to remove the ubuntu boot option, and I will reinstall from a 9.1 CD. Windows still boots ok. ProblemType: Package Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 ErrorMessage: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: update-manager 1:0.93.34 PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: update-manager Title: package update-manager 1:0.93.34 failed to install/upgrade: ErrorMessage: SystemError in cache.commit(): E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1), E:Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686 -- ubuntu update to 9.04 failed to boot correctly - stuck at swap file load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/468451 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
