How to fix broken init

[rpowersau at gmail.com]

I'm not sure if I understand, but what actually is displayed on the
screen when it hangs?

Have you tried pressing ALT-F1 or ALT-F2 or ALT-F3 to get to another terminal?

Maybe X is just dead and if you go to another terminal you can log
into a command line interface and fix it?


On 10/28/06, Lee Willis <ubuntu at lwillis.plus.com> wrote:
> I left one of my machines running a dist-upgrade to bring it up to date
> with edgy-latest around 10 days ago. Unfortunately something seems to
> have happened during the upgrade as when I returned to the PC the power
> was off. I guess either a power failure (Although nothing else in the
> house went off), the machine decided to suspend/hibernate itself, or my
> 2-year old had fun with the bright green button :)
>
> Whenever I try and boot the machine into any of the installed kernels
> the boot process just hangs. Even trying to boot into single user
> doesn't actually get me to a shell. The kernel seems to load OK, and I
> get lots of output about stuff being set up, but it never seems to get
> anywhere that I can do anything. I'm *guessing* that the old init
> process had been removed, and the new upstart process hadn't been
> installed before the power went [It was one of the changes to be made by
> the upgrade IIRC].  I suspect that if I could get it booted then I'd be
> able to get it sorted with some dist-upgrade or dpkg-configure magic -
> however how can I get to that point?  I have a live CD if that'll help
> [Perhaps boot off the live CD and run dpkg-configure with --root set to
> the hard drive?]
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Lee
>
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Regards,
Russ