dist-upgrade from warty to hoary failed SOLVED

[Rich Duzenbury]

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 10:39 -0400, Rich Duzenbury wrote:
> 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.

I found my problem.

The upgrade updated /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf and changed
ROOT="/dev/md2 ext3" to
ROOT=probe.

I changed it back to the previous setting and re-ran apt-get.  The
remaining packages installed in a few seconds,  and all the
packages are now installed.

Thanks.
--
Regards,
Rich

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