| m_tadeu | good morning. is there a way to recover a system (failing I'm guessing due to a bad update), by mounting the disk on another system? | 09:34 |
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| lotuspsychj3 | m_tadeu: try ubuntu's recoverymode from grub first | 09:37 |
| lotuspsychj3 | m_tadeu: you got a lot of options to try there, fix packages with apt, boot into a previous kernel, manualy install packages on a rootshell etc | 09:38 |
| m_tadeu | lotuspsychj3: I don't think I have access to the boot stage...it's a aws instance | 09:38 |
| m_tadeu | at least I don't know how | 09:38 |
| lotuspsychj3 | check perhaps if a shift hold or ESC brings you into grub m_tadeu | 09:41 |
| m_tadeu | lotuspsychj3: unfortunately I can't find a way to do that. is there something I can change in the grub config to trigger that? | 09:48 |
| lotuspsychj3 | not sure sorry m_tadeu maybe someone else has ideas | 09:49 |
| lotuspsychj3 | if you running ubuntu server, you should be at least able to boot into a previous kernels for when things get wrong right | 09:50 |
| m_tadeu | lotuspsychj3: thanks...well I launch the instance but then I don't have direct access to the machine. I have to connect to it. by that time, the boot menu is long gone | 09:52 |
| lotuspsychj3 | can you ssh into it? | 09:52 |
| m_tadeu | nop, since it doesn't boot properly...doesn't even get to start the network | 09:53 |
| lotuspsychj3 | yikes | 09:55 |
| lotuspsychj3 | if it doesnt boot properly, we can also not edit grub to try things to boot | 09:55 |
| m_tadeu | damn...finally was able to get in....after standing for a lot of errors, I'm in bash as root...trying to recover | 09:59 |
| lotuspsychj3 | ah nice | 10:00 |
| lotuspsychj3 | enable networking + rootshell in there | 10:00 |
| m_tadeu | system recovered... | 10:10 |
| m_tadeu | lotuspsychj3: appreciate your help | 10:10 |
| lotuspsychj3 | !yay | 10:10 |
| ubottu | Glad you made it! :-) | 10:10 |
| JanC | doesn't Amazon have something like a remote console? | 10:18 |
| JanC | or a rescue boot image? | 10:20 |
| m_tadeu | kind of...I was able to create a new machine that supports serial console connections...then I was able to get it as root (since the boot failed). and despite lots of error messages just popping up, I was able to 'dpkg --configure -a', which fixed the issue | 10:51 |
| esv | hey folks, are there Ubuntu repos that might match this regular expression ? "http:\/\/[a-z][a-z]\.archive\.ubuntu\.com\/ubuntu" | 11:23 |
| esv | that looks odd to me but rather check here than just tossing it out | 11:24 |
| esv | ahhhh maybe country specific? | 11:25 |
| lotuspsychj3 | esv: maybe a question for the #ubuntu-mirrors crew? | 11:39 |
| blahdeblah | esv: That definitely matches many mirrors | 11:39 |
| esv | thnx | 11:40 |
| blahdeblah | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors and https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors have more info if you need it | 11:41 |
| esv | great | 11:42 |
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