[Bug 37430] Crash during breezy->dapper upgrade

[Stewart Smith]

Public bug reported:

Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Major
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Needs Info


Description:
Upgrading using aptitude, after having replaced occurences of breezy in
the repository list with dapper.

modprobe had gotten stuck in an infinite loop during pcmcia-cs startup
(process '/etc/init.d/pcmcia-cs start' was running with a child of
modprobe that was using 100% cpu). I killed the 'pcmcia-cs start'
process and the upgrade continued.

Until a hard crash when starting acpi.

Naturally, now a half upgraded system that won't boot.

At the time i had the vmware modules loaded, but no virtual machines
running. this is the free vmware server recently released.

Luckily I'm an advanced enough user that I can get around this with boot
cds, dpkg foo and other such things. So I am making progress in getting
back to a system that even boots.
Public bug reported:

Affects: linux-source-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Major
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Needs Info


Description:
Upgrading using aptitude, after having replaced occurences of breezy in
the repository list with dapper.

modprobe had gotten stuck in an infinite loop during pcmcia-cs startup
(process '/etc/init.d/pcmcia-cs start' was running with a child of
modprobe that was using 100% cpu). I killed the 'pcmcia-cs start'
process and the upgrade continued.

Until a hard crash when starting acpi.

Naturally, now a half upgraded system that won't boot.

At the time i had the vmware modules loaded, but no virtual machines
running. this is the free vmware server recently released.

Luckily I'm an advanced enough user that I can get around this with boot
cds, dpkg foo and other such things. So I am making progress in getting
back to a system that even boots.
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Crash during breezy->dapper upgrade 
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/37430