Hardy server won't start after upgrade

[Charles Austin]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Krsnendu dasa <krsnendu108 at gmail.com> wrote:
> More info
> It also says:-
> When starting avahi:
>
> Timeout reached while waiting for return value.
> Did not receive return value from daemon process. fail
>
> 2008/6/9 Krsnendu dasa <krsnendu108 at gmail.com>:
>> I have been running Hardy ok for a few weeks. This morning I did an
>> upgrade using Update Manager and now it won't boot up.
>> When loading avahi-daemon it hangs for a while then says fail. After
>> that the boot up fails until it hangs when it gets to starting Gnome
>> Display Manager.
>> What should I do?
>>
Since Gnome is not starting, you will have to use one of the consoles:
ctrl+alt+F1
This will give you a terminal window where you can log in.  If F1 does
not work, try F2, etc.

If this fails, try to boot into single user mode:
Esc during the Grub message, choose "recovery mode" option.

Once you are logged in, one of the best places to look for clues is in
the dmesg files.
sudo less /var/log/dmesg

There should be some more specific info on the type of error your
system is experiencing towards the end of the file.

Keep us posted,
Charles