dist-upgrade from warty to hoary failed

[Rich Duzenbury]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 23:26 -0700, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > What should I do to get this fixed?
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > # apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> > mount: mount point /.dev does not exist
> 
> Based on that error, I would try:
> 
> sudo mkdir /.dev
> 
> then  retry your apt-get command
> 

Thanks, that got things started again, but still no joy.  The mkinitrd
step ran and ran and ran for quite a long time.  I left it overnight,
and when I returned this morning it had run out of file descriptors.
Perhaps it's looping?

How can I troubleshoot this and get it fixed?

Thanks.

# apt-get dist-upgrade 

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  x-window-system-core
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
10 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up udev (0.050-3ubuntu7) ...
Populating the new /dev filesystem temporarily mounted
on /tmp/dir.U7oOBC/...

Setting up hal (0.4.7-1ubuntu15) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/default/hal ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf ...
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer:
[ ok ]
 * Stopping system message bus:
[ ok ]
 * Starting system message bus:
[ ok ]
 * Starting Hardware abstraction layer:
[ ok ]

Setting up gnome-volume-manager (1.2.0-0ubuntu3) ...

Setting up hal-device-manager (0.4.7-1ubuntu15) ...
Setting up linux-image-2.6.10-5-386 (2.6.10-34) ...
/usr/sbin/mkinitrd: redirection error: cannot duplicate fd: Too many
open files
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.10-5-386 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-image-386:
 linux-image-386 depends on linux-image-2.6.10-5-386; however:
  Package linux-image-2.6.10-5-386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10-5-386:
 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10-5-386 depends on
linux-image-2.6.10-5-386; however:
  Package linux-image-2.6.10-5-386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10-5-386
(--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
linux-restricted-modules-386: linux-restricted-modules-386 depends on
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10-5-386; however:
  Package linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10-5-386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-restricted-modules-386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of linux-386:
 linux-386 depends on linux-image-386; however:
  Package linux-image-386 is not configured yet.
 linux-386 depends on linux-restricted-modules-386; however:
  Package linux-restricted-modules-386 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing linux-386 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up ubuntu-base (0.43) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 linux-image-2.6.10-5-386
 linux-image-386
 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.10-5-386
 linux-restricted-modules-386
 linux-386
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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Regards,
Rich

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