[frgeek-michiana] Re: Server update gone bad

  • From: Richard Zimmerman <ke4rit@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:14:36 -0500

If I'm reading it correctly. You pretty well screwed the server....

The new Debian forces everything to that NOT SO wonderful UUID Crap
for everything. If you then rolled back to Lenny, congrats, you own a
toasted server....

BTDT, you pretty screwed... That happened to me.... Happen to have a
backup of the server?

Goose

/ Happened on a server at work. FORTUNATELY, I had grab some dead
hardware out of the back room and had used it so it wasn't a
production server I toasted...

// Left all work servers @ Lenny and have been researching finding a
distro that DOES NOT use UUID. That crap is for the birds....

/// Maybe force it UUID in Debian for the win!

//// If I can't find a distro that doesn't use UUID, guess I'll be
retiring as a server admin....




On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mike started a hard drive wipe too late to complete by closing time last
> Thursday. I started a warehouse server update which also didn't complete
> before we departed so Mike and I left the systems running with the intention
> I would stop by the warehouse today and turn off the computers.
>
> Mike's DBAN wipe completed so I turned off the PC. The server update
> completed so I rebooted to test the update.
>
> When the server first tried to boot it died trying to load drivers for hdc
> or the next item after that; I couldn't tell which. I turned the server off,
> booted and got the following errors.
>
> ----------
>
> Running /scripts/inti-bottom ... mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed:
> No such file or directory
> done
> mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory
> mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory
> Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init.
> No init found. Try passing init=bootarg.
>
> BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 1:1.10.2-2) built-in shell (ash).
> Enter 'help' for a list of commands.
>
> /bin/sh can't access tty; job control turned off
> (initramfs) __
>
> ----------
>
> A Google search didn't find anything in the first two pages of results which
> exactly applies to the problem and update back story.
>
> The source  lists for apt-get were set to "stable" repositories. Since
> Debian advanced to v6.x 'Squeeze', stable was resulting in v6 packages which
> wouldn't verify. So I changed 'stable' to 'Lenny' (Debian v5.x) in the
> sources list, and the update/upgrade sequence went much better (until I
> rebooted).
>
> I'm not sure if there was a kernel update or not.
>
> The server is running RAID and possibly LVM. I seldom use either so I'm not
> well versed on either. Also, Debian uses Grub (possibly several versions of
> Grub). Grub runs on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS netbook install, but I never touch
> it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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Richard "Goose" Zimmerman, ke4rit
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