Boot sequence on Ubuntu 14.04

[E.S. Rosenberg]

DId you verify that everything had finished installing w/o error?
For interrupted installs:
dpkg --configure -a

and then:
apt-get update && apt-get autoclean && apt-get dist-upgrade && apt-get
autoremove

Would make sure that everything was installed properly, what you decribe to
me sounds like a system that didn't actually finish it's upgrade/install
process and was rebooted.

HTH, chag sameach,
Eliyahu - אליהו

2014-10-05 21:14 GMT+03:00 David Harel <hareldvd at gmail.com>:

> Greetings,
>
> I hastily tried to upgrade from 10.04 to 14.04 using do-relase-upgrade
> It turned out to be a bad idea.
> Now after boot I get something like "can not mount /" and then it suggests
> that I will type (among other things) M for maintenance (start a shell)
> First flaw I noticed is missing init functions typically in
> /lib/lsb/init_functions.d
> I also noticed that init_functions file is not up to date so I copied them
> from a stable14.04 installation. This operation enabled running them
> scripts in /etc/init.d and also the service command.
> Also I had to create a directory /run/network so ifup -a will start.
> Still I couldn't figure out what step in the boot process I am missing
> that fails to mount /
> Currently I setup the services on this server manually including:
> mount -rw,remount /
> mountall
> networking
> ifup -a // Had to do it separately.
> smbd
> nmbd
> ssh
> postgresql-8.4
> apache2
>
> the server is running in full but I guess it has some security issues.
> I can not use the init command (i.e. init 2) to initiate the machine. It
> reboots and I have to start all over again.
>
> I intend to install a new server instead but for curiosity sake I want to
> keep the bad server in order to learn more about upstart.
>
> I did not find any articles about boot sequence with upstart other than
> how to build rc files and a few about the conf files in /etc/init
>
> Will appreciate some good reading on the subject.
>
> Thanks.
>
> David Harel
> Amuka
>
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