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update issue

Asked by caroline bright

I have just run the reccomended updates on my netbook using the netbook edition. and on having done that the system required a restart. Upon restart the following error message came up:

udevadm trigger is not permitted while udev is unconfigured.
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
     - boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
         - Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
         - Check root= (did the system wait for the right device?)
     - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; Is/dev)
Alert! /dev/disk/by-uuid/103899e1-ad8b-42a3-8cc2-12db7d526e3e does not exist. Dropping to a shell!

Any ideas would be a huge help

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Boot to livecd and run:

sudo blkid

Does the code match the output above?

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caroline bright (carolinebright) said : 		#2

ok i'll try that in the morning thanks v. much. Husband is doing it as i have no idea what im doing, and he's gone to bed. Will come back tomorow with info you need.

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Best bcbc (bcbc) said : 		#3

There've been a few of these - dropping to a busybox shell - with the 2.6.32-24 kernel. You should be able to boot an older kernel, unless you installed release 10.04.1 (in which case you only have the -24 kernel). If you don't get prompted automatically with the grub menu at boot, you can hold down SHIFT to make it show, and you can select a previous kernel.

I found a bug report here https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/628084 and there are many instances of this on ubuntuforums.org as well. e.g. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1565714 (but be careful trying to use the fix described here - at least one person managed to mess up the other working kernels - so if you have a working kernel, I recommend just using that).

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caroline bright (carolinebright) said : 		#4

thanks that worked

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caroline bright (carolinebright) said : 		#5

Thanks bcbc, that solved my question.