[Bug 37430] Re: Crash during breezy->dapper upgrade

[Joe Kilner]

I finally managed to fix the installation on the dual Athlon machine by Ctrl-C ing during a single user mode boot to avoid the PCMCIA hang, and then Ctrl Cing when pcmcia-cs tried to run during "dpkg --configure -a". This had to be repeated a few times... All the problems disapeared once the new K7 kernel had been installed and I could boot using that.

Given my experience I strongly suspect that the issue here is the new PCMCIA code running against a breezy SMP kernel (as has already been noted in the thread). It could be that an easy fix would be to recommend that people boot using a non-SMP kernel before upgrading.

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Crash during breezy->dapper upgrade 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/37430