System Update froze - UbuntuMATE 16-04

[Bret Busby]

On 22/06/2018, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 21 June 2018 at 20:59, Bret Busby <bret.busby at gmail.com> wrote:
>> ...
>> But, all of this, especuially, involving the HP external HDD, does not
>> change the fact that the initramfs bug prevails, and, has preventedthe
>> upgrade from completing.
>>
>> This all goes back to the unresolved initramfs bug issue.
>>
>> Even iff the HP external HDD is faulty, that should not prevent the
>> software upgrade from completing.
>>
>> The software upgrade, especially, the Ubuntu base part of the software
>> upgrade, should be able to complete, regardless of the state of the HP
>> external HDD.
>
> Nobody is saying that there is not a bug. The manifestation of the bug
> that you are seeing is that if there is a problem with a disc that
> hangs the I/O on that drive then it stops the update from completing.
> However from your point of view the important thing at the moment is
> the safety of the data on your disc, not the bug.  Even if the bug
> were fixed it would not fix your disc.
>
> You can try unmounting the disc using
> sudo umount /dev/sdb
> If that completes then the system should recover, but I suspect it
> will not complete because the disc is not operating correctly.  In
> which case as far as I can see your only option is to unplug it.  In
> fact if is malfunctioning it may be that the longer you leave it
> connected with the system trying to access it the more likely it is
> that it will fail completely and lose all your data, so the safest
> thing may be to unplug it.
>
> Colin
>


"
root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret# umount /dev/sdb1
umount: /media/bret/hp hard drive1: target is busy
        (In some cases useful info about processes that
         use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1).)
root at bret-Inspiron-580-UbuntuMATE:/home/bret#
"

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia

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