kernel hang while setting up linux-image-2.6.15-28-server

Sébastien Barthélemy barthelemy at crans.org
Wed Apr 25 13:26:52 UTC 2007


Hello all,

I have a pc running dapper server edition. The last kernel security
update didn't succeed (linux-image-2.6.15-28-server): it updated grub
then hangs (no keyboard at all, no ssh login) after printing "installing
linux-image-2.6.15-28-server".

I had to hard-reboot the computer.

After that,  I don't understand why, but none of the grub entries
(2.6.15-26, 27 and 28) succeeded to boot, even in recovery mode.

I started on a live CD, did nothing, restarted again and then I could
start a recovery kernel (this really sounds magical) and eventually get
my computer running again with linux-image-2.6.15-27-server.

When I try to "aptitude reinstall linux-image-2.6.15-28-server", the
same problem arises again.

I found no "verbose" option for dpkg --reconfigure and I had a look at
linux-image-2.6.15-28-server.deb scripts but they are cryptic to me.

I found nothing relevent in the logs, but maybe I'm looking at the bad
place.

I'm totally puzzled now, does anybody here have an explanation or a
methodology to understand what is going on ?


Thanks !





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