Instant Karma (was A better flavour?)

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:49:14 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Almost as soon as I posted "A better flavour" thread I myself had a bit of 
> trouble
> 
> I have a Compaq laptop that has bare 16.04 on (think 12.04->14.04->16.04) it 
> had been sidelined because a Ram modual had died and made it run like cold 
> Treacle, anyway I found a spare 128mb stick (so now 768mb some taken by 
> display) and did
> 
> sudo apt update -y && sudo apt dist-upgrade -y
> 
> sudo apt autoremove -y && sudo apt autoclean -y
> 
> shutdown now -r
> 
> all went well (a bit slow but...)
> 
> then I got cocky
> 
> sudo Scripts/rm-kernels
> 
> listed a large number of old & very old kernels so I clicked on all of them and 
> sat back as they were deleted...
> 
> untill it got to a few that started 3.x.x.22 thru 3.x.x.28 "Cant be found"
> 
> no problemm but
> 
> dpkg --list | grep linux-image
> 
> still showed them
> 
> so I tried rm-kernels again same response 
> 
> then I did a manual
> 
> rm -rf of all the 3.x.x.* kernels
> 
> reboot
> 
> Wallpaper only no launcher or top panel, left for 20 minutes
> 
> could not get a terminal (Ctrl+Shift+T) to let me shutdown, so had to power 
> down
> 
> Reboot - Advanced - Recovery - Resume
> 
> All working ;->)
> 
> Reboot 
> 
> back to just wallpaper
> 
> Reboot - Advanced - Recover - Resume
> 
> Working again
> 
> --reinstall desktop & unity
> 
> no change on reboot
> 
> rinse and repeate
> 
> So ok bad Karma, but why  
> 
> Advanced - Recover - Resume (latest kernel)
> works (so everything needed is there?)
> 
> and Normal Boot to same Kernel? does not
> 
> what "should" I have done?

You probably need to re-build the initramfs and/or rebuild grub.cfg. The
recovery ramdisk is probably good (or at least good enough to get the recovery
menu).


> 
> Probably not what I did do
> 

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