Nirbheek had advised me to always keep /home on a separate partition, and it came in handy today.
Introduction
Natty Narwhal is the new Ubuntu release made on 28th of April, 2011. When I tried to upgrade to it yesterday, bad things happened.
While the installation went smoothly up to the step Installing the upgrades, it simply hung after trying to Load lirc module on my HP dv2000 laptop. More so, my laptop became unresponsive. The next step I took (I do not know why I did it), was to open a terminal and type:
sudo reboot
The Problem
This was a really bad idea, as it turned out.
The next time I tried to log on, I was greeted with the unfriendly error:
Introduction
Natty Narwhal is the new Ubuntu release made on 28th of April, 2011. When I tried to upgrade to it yesterday, bad things happened.
While the installation went smoothly up to the step Installing the upgrades, it simply hung after trying to Load lirc module on my HP dv2000 laptop. More so, my laptop became unresponsive. The next step I took (I do not know why I did it), was to open a terminal and type:
sudo reboot
The Problem
This was a really bad idea, as it turned out.
The next time I tried to log on, I was greeted with the unfriendly error:
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| Kernel crash while updating to Natty Narwhal |
