File system locked on upgrade

[David S Angulo]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 5:02 PM, NoOp<glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Thanks, NoOp.  This was really helpful.

> - Again in recovery, try dpkg to see if any of the update packages borked.

I couldn't figure out how to use dpkg.  I ran dselect and could scroll
through packages seing status.  The only thing I saw out of place was:

libdevmapper  removed      required
volumeid         not installed important

> - fstab is doing as instructed because there is an error.

Ah.  OK.  Now I understand why we're doing this.

> Check to make
> sure that the UUID didn't get messed up in the process:
> $ sudo blkid
>  or
> # blkid
> and compare that to see if it matches that of your fstab.

Yes, they match.


> Check /var/log/dpkg.log to see what the upgrades were.
> /var/log/syslog.0 should give some indication of errors, as should
> /var/log/dmesg.0.


Before I posted the first message, I did a grep of everything in
/var/log for "error" and couldn't find anything.  I see the lines
below in dmesg, but I don't understand any of it


------ start lines from dmesg -------
[   25.817922] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      TOSHIBA
MK1032GS AS02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   25.821799] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST DVDRAM
GMA-4082N HA01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[   25.831918] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[   25.832026] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors (100030 MB)
[   25.832047] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   25.832052] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   25.832082] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   25.832155] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 195371568 512-byte hardware sectors (100030 MB)
[   25.832173] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[   25.832178] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[   25.832208] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[   25.832214]  sda:<4>Driver 'sr' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[   25.857827]  sda1 sda2 sda3
[   25.857971] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
------ end   lines from dmesg -------

Thanks again for the help