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

[Sébastien Barthélemy]

Hello again,

I'm sorry to insist, but this server is quite important to me. I know
that I provided no useful information for debugging. What should I do to
find this information ?

Thanks again.

Sebastien



Le mercredi 25 avril 2007 à 15:26 +0200, Sébastien Barthélemy a écrit :
> 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 !
> 
>