edgy->feisty: upgrad hanged at restarting SSH server

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:
> H.S. wrote:
>> During Edgy-Feisty upgrade: the last line in the update-manager's 
>> terminal windows says something like restarting openBSD secure shell 
>> server. Looks like restarting of openssh-server hanged or something went 
>> wrong here. I can't open a new terminal, can't change to a console and 
>> neither can I ssh to that machine from another machine to see what could 
>> be wrong. Any suggestions?
>>
>> ->HS
> 
> A little follow-up: since the laptop stopped responding and stayed that 
> way for around 20 minutes or more, I just rebooted it with the power 
> switch. Now I cannot finish the boot process, it stops with a message 
> something like: waiting for the root file system, then tells me the root 
> UUID filesystem (followed by a long number) does not exist and gives me 
> the initramfs prompt. I am thinking of booting it up with a LiveCD and 
> see what is wrong. Advice?
> 
> ->HS

Well, the above problem really hosed my system. It stopped the upgrade 
process and apparently did not finish generating initramfs stuff for the 
installed kernels.

I rebooted with a LiveCD (Ubuntu Feisty!) and then chrooted into my hard 
disk installation and then did "aptitude upgrade" which finished the 
remainder of the upgrade process. I was then able to reboot into the new 
Feisty install.

The remaining problem was that the starting of the upgrade process had 
disabled restricted driver sources. Re-enabling them and upgrading gave 
me the newer nvidia drivers as well.

Feisty is now running smoothly on the laptop. Yet to verify wireless 
stuff though.

->HS