[ubuntu-uk] Lost network access in Ubuntu 8.04

[David King]

I think I have realised what has happened in regards to the software and 
settings being out of date.

A few months ago I cloned the root partition, as a backup. Somehow, I 
have been running Ubuntu from the backup instead of the original, so the 
backup got updated. So when I installed Ubuntu 9.04, I chose the 
partition of the backup, thinking I do not need it any more, not 
realising that I was formatting and thus erasing my good installation of 
8.04 and replacing it with 9.04, and when I booted into the old copy of 
8.04 thinking it was the latest copy of my OS, I found instead an 
outdated version.

I feel so stupid now....


David King


David King wrote:
> I tried a different kernel, as it seems that some of the modules for the 
> kernel it was trying to use were missing.
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> So I went into 9.04 and edited the grub menu, and booted 8.04 with an 
> earlier kernel, but it was like going back in time, as all settings were 
> set to an earlier date. However, it was the only kernel that worked 
> instead of the latest one installed, and then I installed a later kernel 
> through Synaptic that was available. I can now boot using the later 
> kernel and things seems back to normal, except that my installed 
> programs, icons, etc., are all as they were a few months ago instead of 
> how they were recently.
>
> How can I get things back to the way they were in terms of icons and 
> installed programs in menus?
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> David King
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> David King wrote:
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>> I have had the fsck problem before when booting this PC, and it when I then get a low graphics login screen, I reboot, and the problem goes away. But this time it keeps recurring, and only the recent occurences since i installed 9.04 on another partition.
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>> I looked into the logs, and found this at the end of /var/log/messages:
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>> Jun  2 14:57:54 ubuntu8amd64 kernel: [  913.899185] usplash[7352]: segfault at ffffffcc rip 7fe342f1e82f rsp 7fff4bb2b140 error 6
>> Jun  2 14:58:00 ubuntu8amd64 libvirtd: Shutting down on signal 15
>> Jun  2 14:58:02 ubuntu8amd64 exiting on signal 15
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>> There is no mention of fsck in the logs.
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>>> On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:48 +0200, David King wrote:
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>>>> I have a further problem now. After having successfully installed Ubuntu 
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>>> 9.04, when I try to boot into 8.04, it stops part way through saying the file 
>>> system check died, and I have to press CTRL-D to continue. When it loads the 
>>> login screen, it is in a low graphics mode and the mouse does not work.
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>>>> I then restart the PC and the same thing happens, now several times. I need 
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>>> to boot into 8.04 as that's where all my software is installed as I have 
>>> important work to do. Eventually I put everything into 9.04, but for now it 
>>> would take too long to get that ready to use, but with 8.04 not booting 
>>> properly, it is a real nuisance.
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>>>> How can I get 8.04 to boot properly?
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>>>>
>>>> David King
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>>> When you get to that prompt, run fsck over the disk, so fsck /dev/sda1
>>> or sda2 or whichever partition your 8.04 install is on. It will ask you
>>> some questions about how to proceed. Once this has run, reboot and it
>>> should work.
>>>
>>> -Matt Daubney 
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> ubuntu-uk at lists.ubuntu.com
>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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