Ubuntu :: Cannot Boot After Power Interruption During Update
Nov 25, 2010
My mom's ubuntu 10.04 laptop ran out of battery during a software update and now it will not boot.
When attempting to boot normally, it comes up to the login screen but the keyboard and mouse do not respond at that point. Ctrl + Alt + F2 doesn't work.
Choosing recovery mode also does not complete. The last line showing is "Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... Done." Ctrl + Alt + F2 also doesn't work at that point, although Ctrl + Alt + F7 changes to another screen of text with the last line showing "init: udevmonitor main process killed by TERM signal".
I've tried booting from a 10.04 live CD and ran fsck which did not find any problems on the linux partition. I can also mount the partition and view files.
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Nov 29, 2009
here is the problem I am facing. My system [ fedora 11 with all updates installed as of nov 27] suffered a power interuption.[ well that happens I dont have an UPS] here is what happen then
1- when i restarted i get stuck with the "install problem with gnome power manager" that prevent the desktop to launch. I found this to be well documented and I ssh'd [ for some reason cannot get the consol] my system and tried as root to remove gnome-power manager with yum remove power manager ... well the command hang out doing nothing and I have to close the session and reconnect... CTRL C dont even work.
So I had another problem. I started checking my system and when I tried df, I received the shocking following answer
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Aug 11, 2011
I'm quite new to unbuntu and I'm getting puzzled for whenever I type
'sudo aptitude install ' for any software, I got the same error:
'E: I wasn't able to locate a file for the skype package. This might mean you need to manually fix this package. (due to missing arch)'
I guess it's due to I manually stopped the installation of skype for 'skype-ubuntu_2.2.0.35-1_i386.deb', and restarted my computer.
ps. I cannot install anything from Unbuntu software center either.
Could you tell me how to check what's wrong and how to fix?
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Feb 2, 2016
I am running Debian on an ARM module (BananaPi).5 minutes ago, i started upgrading the system, but fortunately the power cable moved and the system closed.Now i open it up again and i'm trying to re-upgrade the system but i'm always getting this message
# apt-get upgrade
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
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Jun 14, 2010
I made a huge mistake. I was installing dtc-toaster in a Lenny box, and i accidentally closed the aptitude window. Then I opened another konsole (I have kde 3.5 installed), and I couldn't switch to root via "su" command. I can't remember the error message that i got, but it was something like "module not recognized".
Next i reboot the PC, and when I tried to login in tty1, system saids that root "is not a valid username". I had no better luck with other users.
As I'm not an experienced user, I really don't know where to begin. The good news are that starting in recovery mode seems to work.
I have no extra data by now, except that I ran fsck (from a System Rescue CD) on the lenny root partition, and it found no errors.
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Dec 6, 2010
I do IT work for a decently-sized bookstore. Over the past year or so we have had a recurring problem crop up where file transfers with networks outside of our building will be interrupted, or those receiving our uploads will get truncated files. It is an intermittent problem and I have not been able to narrow it down to any particular day of the month or time of day. Files that are dealt with in our web browsers have no issues - I can happily download and upload large files all day without interruption. Yet when our little postage meter machine tries to connect to its update server, it sometimes has its connection interrupted downloading its update files. Our credit card machines sometimes have trouble holding a connection long enough to batch out, and our storewide POS system often has to resend its credit batch multiple times before it can maintain connection long enough to push the whole file through. One server daily ftp's a ~11mb file to an associate, and a few days a month they will receive a truncated file that appears to have been cut off mid-transfer. Our bandwidth is handled through three T1 lines that share phone line and internet service. Our voice calls never get dropped and have good line quality, but mobile credit card terminals will have trouble maintaining a connection when they dial out.
I'm thinking this is either an ISP issue or an internal network problem. I don't know what protocol the mobile machines use, but it's possible it could be restricted to ftp or, I dunno, telnet? Maybe a port forwarding conflict? Files sent internally have no problems, so I'm thinking it's something at the firewall/proxy/router stage.
Our servers run a number of *nixes: our central databasing/pos is handled by an IBM RISC box running AIX 4.3; our DHCP server runs Debian Sarge 3.1; we have a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS box running a squidproxy setup using squidguard for url filtering; firewalling is handled by a Debian 5 box running Untangle. Our ISP provides us a 4.5 Mb connection via three T1 lines that provide shared bandwidth for our digital telephone lines and internet.
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Mar 22, 2010
I just had a power cut whilst installing updates on my laptop (which dosen't have a battery)
When i try to use update manager or synaptic now i get this message:
When i do sudo dpkg --configure -a this is what i get:
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Sep 12, 2010
I was updating the kernel and left the computer to let it do its business. There was power failure and I don't know if the update completed or if it was in the middle of it. Now if I start the computer, it freezes up at the login screen. I tried to recover from grub, by selecting "Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-21-generic (recovery mode)". There were no prompts for input after this. The recovery screen is not updating anything after:
[2.348886] EXT4-fs (sda1): INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem
[2.349015] EXT4-fs (sda1): write access will be enabled during recovery
[2.577641] EXT4-fs (sda1): recovery complete
[2.578072] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
Begin: Running /scripts/local-bottom ...
Done.
Done.
Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
Done.
When I come out of that screen (ctrl-alt-del), the problem repeats.
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Sep 1, 2011
Here's the error I get:
"The configuration has not installed correctly for Gnome power management".
Updated my 11.04 install via the update manager last night. When I turned my computer on today it wouldn't boot into the normal gui desktop. Where my normal login screen usually appears a different login screen appears with my username. I login. Screen flickers black for a few seconds and a page with a ton of text shows up for a fraction of a second ( too short of a time to read a single word). more flickering. Then I am returned to the slightly different login screen once again with the error. I tried booting into failsafeX gui mode. Same issue.
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Mar 5, 2016
I have recently upgraded the hardware of my zenbook from i5 to i7. Unfortunately the battery discharges very fast (30 min instead 3 h with i5) because the system turns all time at maximum speed (I guess).
Is there any power management update for Debian Jessie8.3 on i7 processors?
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Oct 3, 2010
When i am updating suddenly the power gone.what i have to do now.
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Jan 2, 2011
Whenever I power-down my CPU (not reboot, full power-down) my Ubuntu system will not boot up. No other OS is on the computer, just Ubuntu. Usually reinstalling grub will fix the boot problem. But I don't understand why simply turning off the computer would mess up grub. I have to keep my computer running 24/7 or I have to go through the process of rescuing the system.
I'm guessing it's something to do with the hardware and not the OS.
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May 31, 2010
Ubuntu 10.4 on desktop system. Everything was working satisfactorily until...Trying to boot up after a power loss I got "ERROR: You need to load the kernel first."I tried to boot into recovery mode and got "ERROR: HD0, 1 out of disk ERROR: Couldn't read file Loading initial ramdisk ERROR: You need to load the kernel first."Next I booted with the live Ubuntu disk to see if I could mount the drive from there and got thisError mounting: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,missing codepage or helper program, or other errorIn some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
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Feb 11, 2011
Running 10.10 After a main power failure I can't boot.
It says:
...........
[sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
and stops.
I get a (initramfs) prompt and have no idea what to do with it.
Allready tried to install 10.10 again from a CD. But it also hangs immediately when it starts to install. The liveCD feature works OK and I can access the hard disk. I tried to update the initramfs with the liveCD but it says I can't write since I have only "read-only" access. But if I do "sudo nautilus" I have full access to the disk.
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Mar 26, 2011
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 a while back using Wubi. I have it installed alongside Windows XP. Just yesterday the power went out in my house while I was booted into Ubuntu. When I turned my computer back on I still have the option to select Ubuntu or Windows, but now when I select Ubuntu I get right into a grub prompt. Grub used to give me a list of kernals but now it just sits waiting for commands.
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Aug 12, 2011
My computer was on when the power went out. I am not able to boot into ubuntu 11.4 install since that happened. I also have debian 6 and ubuntu 11.10 installed on the same machine and both boot just fine.
The machine boots as normal but stops with the line "disconnected from Plymouth". After the machine just sits there with a blinking cursor. I cannot start another terminal. Is my only option to reinstall.
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Jun 7, 2010
After a power outage Ubuntu fails to boot. How can I resolve this ? Is there a safe mode method to resolve the booting problem?
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Dec 14, 2010
I was using Ubuntu 10.04 for the last 6 months, recently I have upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10, it worked fine for around four days, Now the problem is When I power up the system using power button, the system do not power up, I tried to boot from cd both Ubuntu and Windows XP, none works, I tried to go to BIOS setup using F2 and F12 (Acer Aspire 5920 model laptop), but i could not, just a blank display appears, here are some symptoms:
1. When powered on - LED indicating pocressor operation glows for a moment and disappears, few other LEDS indicating batter, music play, forward,stop LEDs glows as as usual,
2. Only blank screen appears
3. tried to switch on the wifi and bluetooth buttons, both did not glow indicating it is not working.
4. Paculiar thing is this symptons appears first time, suddenly all stop glowing and after 2 to 3 seconds again the system comes to this state and remains forever.
Questions:
1. Is it possible to be hardware problem?
2. If it a software problem the suspect can be Ubuntu 10.10 version?
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Feb 12, 2011
today my desktop crashed due to power failure. When i again started the machine and tried to boot Ubuntu i m getting the following message in command screen:- "Minimal BASH-Like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists is possible device & file completions."
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Jan 6, 2010
I have a box running Lenny and boot with lilo. Today there was a power failure and now the system is stuck on Lilo ..It doesnt get passed that. I tried to boot in single mode but the same thing is happens. How can I fix this problem
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Jun 21, 2010
I am using Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit and I purchased a new ALFA AWUS036H wireless card. I would like to know if this "1Watt" wireless card is configured for full power. iwlist wlan0 txpower results:
wlan0 unknown transmit-power information. Current Tx-Power=27 dBm (501 mW). It appears to me that I should be able to increase the power. "iwpriv wlan0 highpower 1" does not work. Do I need to patch the new default driver that comes with Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit with the aircrack one following these directions:[URL]...? Monitor mode and a injection tests seem to work fine with the driver I have installed.
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Mar 18, 2010
I was originally going to install debian on this old iMac G4 and everything was going well. But then I decided, hey wait one second, I could probably find a version of Ubuntu which works on this old iMac, and so... i stopped the installation and loaded the ubuntu 8.04 disc. The only problem is, it will no longer register the boot CD... because i kind of already did the partitioning and nuked the OS X... So now I just see a gray screen with a file image displayed revolving between a question mark and the file finder image.
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May 6, 2010
I'm on HP tx2000 Tablet PC, with nVidia GeForce 6150 Go onboard, 4GB of RAM, Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 Desktop. I keep getting a blank screen after boot splash when I'm on BATTERY POWER. Though I get a blank screen, the screen comes alive when I SUSPEND the laptop by closing the lid, and then RESUME the laptop. Then I can see the logon box and whole desktop.
Usually people get problem by suspending their laptops (usually the screen not coming back after resuming), but now I SOLVE the problem by suspending my laptop. Well like I said I can somehow get the screen right, but I really can't (and don't want to) suspend and resume my laptop every time I boot. Problem occurs REGARDLESS of type of display driver I use. nVidia proprietary, nouveau... whichever driver I use, I get the same conclusion.
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Jun 4, 2010
I use Squeeze with Xfce. My problem is that recently (after the xfce updates) the xfce power manager doesnt react to the power button - it is set to suspend. I dont have gnome-power manager or anything like it running.
If i reboot the computer, the power button will work but if i suspend and resume, it doesnt work again.
The computer is built on an Asus M3N78-VM mobo (2GB RAM/Athlon3200+ single core).
acpi_listen detects the button press.
Any thoughts?
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Apr 4, 2011
I'm looking for any power monitoring devices for Linux to allow monitoring power quality, voltage changes, and outages. This would be for North American three phase power system. I want to have this data fed live to my own program. It should be something much better than just jury-rigging a circuit to fee the power waveform into 2 or 3 audio cards.
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Apr 19, 2011
I'm very new to Linux and recently setup a desktop PC with Puppy 5.2.5. only. I chose to have a permanent install on the hard drive and loaded additional PETS and utilities as I thought needed for my use. Last night after immediately booting up the PC I had a power cut lasting a few minutes. When power returned and I repowered the PC, I found during Puppy's boot sequence it reported an error and remained in what appeared to be a console mode - did not carry through and load my desktop. So I inserted the Puppy CD and booted from that but I'm afraid I'm not familiar enough with Linux to understand how I can get back my original desktop setup and run once again from my hard drive without having to go back to scratch.
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May 28, 2010
On the last release, I had this app installed where I could pick my power profile. I could use power conservatively, and performance would suffer a bit, but longer batt life,or I could have it automatically detect, or I could have the apps use all the power they want and then some. I'm looking to reinstall that app. What was the name of it?I can't remember, and so far, can't find.
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Nov 3, 2010
10.04 64 bit won't boot.
error message: enabling additional executable binary formats binfmt-support /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs: No such file or directory
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Oct 30, 2010
I had unplugged my PC last night as sometimes there's storms at night this morning I plugged in PC and the power light is blinking and the PC wont come on at all tried different power cord, same result
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probably the power-supply or what?
If it is the power supply, how do I find new one as I've never had to replace anything on it or any other PC?
Also, I really need access to the hard drive but it's a weird hard drive and was wondering if I could put that hard drive in my K7 PC, which already has 2 drives in it can a pc have 3 drives? do I have to add/have another ribbon cable for 3rd drive?
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Sep 24, 2010
Due to a power outage, my EXT4 file systems (which contain /usr and /opt) no longer mount at boot-up. They are, however, seen by disk utility in Knoppix, so I assume the data is still there and that it's just matter of making a connection to it.
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