Since this is my home app server and testbed machine, I started uncomplicating my setup to see if that would help...
root@kami:~# lvremove /dev/KamiVG01/chippoke Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume chippoke? [y/n]: y Logical volume "chippoke" successfully removed root@kami:~# lvremove /dev/KamiVG01/nas-office Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume nas-office? [y/n]: y Logical volume "nas-office" successfully removed root@kami:~# lvscan root@kami:~# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "KamiVG01" using metadata type lvm2 root@kami:~# vgremove KamiVG01 Volume group "KamiVG01" successfully removed root@kami:~# vgscan Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... No volume groups found dpkg --configure -a still froze at Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin. Also attached current menu.lst. Interestingly, running update-grub manually seems to work fine (but walks over the kernels twice?): root@kami:/boot/grub# /usr/sbin/update-grub Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ... Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-12-generic Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-17-generic Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-12-generic Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-17-generic Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.11.0-15-generic Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done root@kami:/boot/grub# ** Attachment added: "menu.lst" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/1285312/+attachment/3998156/+files/menu.lst -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1285312 Title: Setting up mdadm (3.2.5-5ubuntu3) freezes at Found kernel: when upgrading from Saucy to Trusty To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mdadm/+bug/1285312/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
