[Bug 37430] Re: Crash during breezy->dapper upgrade

[Andrew Ash]

I too encountered this bug upgrading from kubuntu breezy to dapper this
morning.  Restarting PCMCIA during the dist-upgrade process froze the
system, which stopped responding to mouse movements and wouldn't drop to
a virtual console with Ctrl+Alt+F1.

After forcing the system off by holding the power button, kernel
2.6.12-10-686-smp (what I was using) wouldn't boot because of a string
of SegFaults.  Neither would the recovery mode of that kernel, but I was
able to get to a root console using an old kernel 2.6.12-9-386 in
recovery mode.

'Sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' led to me to try 'dpkg --configure -a',
which worked as everyone has said.  But starting X didn't get kdm
started.  It turns out that the kubuntu-desktop package had disappeared
from my system as well.  Sudo apt-get installing it then worked fine.
It would seem that SMP is the common problem here, though that's just a
personal observation.

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Crash during breezy->dapper upgrade 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/37430