2011-08-15



A  friend  had  a  rather  old  Ubuntu  installation,  his  first
GNU/Linux.  Now Gnome had some problems.  I couldn't fix it right
away.  After some hours we started upgrading the system ... until
we  ran  out of disk space. The problem was /tmp, which was a 1MB
ram disk -- wtf?  Unable to enlarge it, we decided to reboot  the
system  in  order to start anew.  This, unfortunately, was fatal.
The system didn't come up again.  /sbin/init was missing, lost in
the unfinished upgrade.

Finally we decided to install fresh and restore the data backup.

But what had been the real problem?  Ubuntu? Gnome?

Actually, I don't care too much, as I use neither of them.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>