Trashed Hardy on update

[Jared Greenwald]

This is in the topic of the #ubuntu+1 channel on freenode:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=722886

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Francisco Borges
<francisco.borges at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Nigel,
>
>
>  On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote:
>
>  >  Now I can't boot normally and even in recovery mode, regardless of which
>  >  kernel I choose, I get to:
>  >  Check root= bootarg cat /proc.cmdline
>  >  or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev
>  >  ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/long_string_of_alphanumeric_stuff does not
>  >  exist. Dropping to a shell!
>  >  BusyBox v1.1.3 9Debian 1:1.1.3-5ubuntu12) Built-in shell (ash)
>  >  Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
>
>  That sounds like.... hum... loads of fun!!
>
>  Think in a positive way Nigel!! You're in for a lot of fun!
>
>  [...]
>
>  My **guess** is that you'll probably need to 'rescue" your system.
>
>  Rescuing something with a broken libc will IIRC
>  - involve booting a Live CD,
>  - setting up a bootstraped environment (I really don't remember the
>  command for it).
>
>  then you'll either download whichever packages you'll need to
>  reinstall, or get network on the bootstraped system.
>
>  and then reinstall/upgrade whatever is broken
>
>  If you google for "Linux rescue" you may find more information on how
>  to do it....
>
>  Once you have done it. You can be proud of yourself, and get to treat
>  your self with ice-cream. At least that is what I did every time I had
>  to rescue a system.
>
>  [...]
>
>  I don't know if that consoles you, but I may be on the same boat ;-)
>  upgraded in the morning, saw the broken libc, but I had to go to work.
>  So I hibernated.
>
>  Cheers,
>  --
>  Francisco
>
>
>
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