[09:34] <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?
[09:37] <lotuspsychj3> m_tadeu: try ubuntu's recoverymode from grub first
[09:38] <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
[09:41] <lotuspsychj3> check perhaps if a shift hold or ESC brings you into grub m_tadeu 
[09:48] <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?
[09:49] <lotuspsychj3> not sure sorry m_tadeu maybe someone else has ideas
[09:50] <lotuspsychj3> if you running ubuntu server, you should be at least able to boot into a previous kernels for when things get wrong right
[09:52] <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?
[09:53] <m_tadeu> nop, since it doesn't boot properly...doesn't even get to start the network
[09:55] <lotuspsychj3> yikes
[09:55] <lotuspsychj3> if it doesnt boot properly, we can also not edit grub to try things to boot
[09:59] <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
[10:00] <lotuspsychj3> ah nice
[10:00] <lotuspsychj3> enable networking + rootshell in there
[10:10] <m_tadeu> system recovered...
[10:10] <m_tadeu> lotuspsychj3: appreciate your help
[10:10] <lotuspsychj3> !yay
[10:18] <JanC> doesn't Amazon have something like a remote console?
[10:20] <JanC> or a rescue boot image?
[10:51] <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
[11:23] <esv> hey folks, are there Ubuntu repos that might match this regular expression ? "http:\/\/[a-z][a-z]\.archive\.ubuntu\.com\/ubuntu"
[11:24] <esv> that looks odd to me but rather check here than just tossing it out
[11:25] <esv> ahhhh maybe country specific?
[11:39] <lotuspsychj3> esv: maybe a question for the #ubuntu-mirrors crew?
[11:39] <blahdeblah> esv: That definitely matches many mirrors
[11:40] <esv> thnx
[11:41] <blahdeblah> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors and https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors have more info if you need it
[11:42] <esv> great