[Bug 1238930] [NEW] sytem crashes after running update-manager -d; "kernel panic"; "switching back to text console"; unresponsive command-line

[Ramdass Israel]

Public bug reported:

So I upgraded my raring to saucy using update-manager -d  The process
was done downloading updated packages from saucy repo and then was on
the process of installing them when my screen turned to a text based
interface with the last 2 lines being

*
5533.546415 kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode = 0x0000ff00
[5533.54675] drm_kms_helper: panic occured, switching back to text console


After "console" nothing follows, and nothing I do could make my sytem respond in any way, sudo, Ctrl-Alt-F1 -> F6 ,REISUB, etc, and could only bring it down with a hard shutdown through a long press of the power button. After restart, everything "seems" alright apt-get update works  until I try to manually apt-get upgrade, which then says something wrong with dpkg and I should manually input dpkg --configure -a. When I do try, it reverts to the same crash ending in the same 2 lines as * above. I also tried aptitude and synaptic manager but they don't work either.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.192.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-32.47-generic 3.8.13.10
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.4
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Sat Oct 12 02:40:59 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-24 (200 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-11 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade saucy

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Title:
  sytem crashes after running update-manager -d; "kernel panic";
  "switching back to text console"; unresponsive command-line

Status in “ubuntu-release-upgrader” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  So I upgraded my raring to saucy using update-manager -d  The process
  was done downloading updated packages from saucy repo and then was on
  the process of installing them when my screen turned to a text based
  interface with the last 2 lines being

  *
  5533.546415 kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode = 0x0000ff00
  [5533.54675] drm_kms_helper: panic occured, switching back to text console

  
  After "console" nothing follows, and nothing I do could make my sytem respond in any way, sudo, Ctrl-Alt-F1 -> F6 ,REISUB, etc, and could only bring it down with a hard shutdown through a long press of the power button. After restart, everything "seems" alright apt-get update works  until I try to manually apt-get upgrade, which then says something wrong with dpkg and I should manually input dpkg --configure -a. When I do try, it reverts to the same crash ending in the same 2 lines as * above. I also tried aptitude and synaptic manager but they don't work either.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.192.13
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-32.47-generic 3.8.13.10
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-32-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.4
  Architecture: amd64
  CrashDB: ubuntu
  Date: Sat Oct 12 02:40:59 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-24 (200 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
  Symptom: release-upgrade
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-11 (0 days ago)
  VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:

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