System won't boot after failed upgrade from 23.10 to 24.05

[Liam Proven]

On Sat, 25 May 2024 at 23:35, Walt Mankowski <waltman at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> Sigh. This isn't how I was planning on spending my weekend.
>
> > P.S. Every time I run 'apt upgrade', before asking for confirmation apt
> > tells me how much additional disk space, if any, the updated packages will
> > require. Bummer that do_release_upgrade does not do the same?
>
> Thing is, I'd already tried to do_release_upgrade once and had it
> complain that I didn't have enough space on /usr. That time it aborted
> cleanly and restored all the old packages.

Is `/usr` on a separate partition then? (And if so: why?)

Boot from a live medium, and resize the partitions to give it at least
several gigabytes more space, then.

> I deleted a few things and tried again. This time it got further along
> and failed at a point where it couldn't recover. At that point I
> removed wine, which freed up some space, and told me it could free up
> a lot more if I ran `apt autodelete`.

Hang on, what? I have never heard of that one.  What does it do?



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