I tried to upgrade my wife's Packard Bell netbook running Lubuntu 12.04 LTS to 12.10. It all ran smoothly until after the downloading of packages and requesting I confirm that some will be removed, added etc.
When I returned after leaving it to do it's thing, I had a black screen with a lot of text which unfortunately I did not note down although it was very cryptic. I do remember that it was mentioning something about the kernel, although if this is the problem I don't know.
I had to hard reboot and tried the recovery mode. I managed to get to a root shell and noticed that it is not a problem of disk space. Before the upgrade there was over 3GB on /, and now there is about 2GB. What is strange though is that the /home does not get mounted automatically at bootup. I tried various schemes as reported below to get it mounted automatically without any success.
I then tried various options such as:
fsck dpkg network root grub system-summary = reports no /home directory
Each time it asks me to mount all the filesystem in fstab and when I confirm it stops at
mountall: mount /home/mywife/etc/etc/ terminated with status 1
it says such as in place of etc/etc/ Documents Music Media Pictures and so on. I tried to find the solution suggested in various forums including this one but with no exact situation like mine.
Help will be much appreciated.
The /etc/fstab below:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=b2c60910-ff66-4713-a629-37c293b62393 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
#/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0
192.168.2.2:/home/ericam/Documents /home/ericam/media/Documents nfs timeo=14,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
192.168.2.2:/home/ericam/Pictures /home/ericam/media/Pictures nfs timeo=14,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
192.168.2.2:/home/ericam/Music /home/ericam/media/Music nfs timeo=14,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
This does seem a bit strange.This is the 1st time I see the /cryptswap and mounting to the ../media/.. directory! There doesn't seem to be any older or backup fstab which would show up the differences.
running "df" as root brings up the following:
df: `/run/user': no such file or directory
Filesystem 1K-blocks ........ Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 .................. 79% /
udev .................. 0% /dev
none .................. 1% /run/lock
none .................. 1% /run/shm
I had to type it out so bear with the ..... bit.
Here is the output for the lsblk command:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 232.9G 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 9.3G 0 part /
├─sda2 8:2 0 2.8G 0 part
├─sda3 8:3 0 1K 0 part
└─sda5 8:5 0 220.8G 0 part
sdb 8:16 1 1.9G 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 1 1.9G 0 part /mnt
Note that sdb is the usb stick I used to copy over the data. I might add that I used the mount command.
After a few days I tried the following:
The fstab was changed to this:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
#/dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=d7ae9306-1dac-416e-8d59-1055ada63c48 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda5 during installation
#/dev/sda5 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
UUID=b2c60910-ff66-4713-a629-37c293b62393 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 2
#/dev/mapper/cryptswap1 none swap sw 0 0
#192.168.2.2:/home/ericam/Documents /home/ericam/media/Documents nfs timeo=14,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
#192.168.2.2:/home/ericam/Pictures /home/ericam/media/Pictures nfs timeo=14,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
#192.168.2.2:/home/ericam/Music /home/ericam/media/Music nfs timeo=14,intr,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 0 0
I have amended the fstab after this questions advice: my /home is not mounted after 12.04 upgrade I changed the lines to include the UUID which are correct. I checked... The command 'fdisk -l' shows:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3e751ccc
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 19531775 9764864 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 482537472 488396799 2929664 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 19533822 482535423 231500801 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 19533824 482535423 231500800 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 2002 MB, 2002780160 bytes
62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1017 cylinders, total 3911680 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001dbd4
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 62 3909347 1954643 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
It still won't mount at bootup.....
