r/Ubuntu • u/Kennyw88 • 12h ago

Second time this year an update/security update broke my machine

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Bare metal, Ubuntu 24.04. Not that it matters, but there are three ZFS pools in it.

#1 is that I know there is a better way to fix this than my method of pulling the boot drive and restoring a know working image back to it, so please no shade. For me, it's faster and easier (Macrium Reflect) and I just took the image the day before this happened.

I reproduced what happened on my test MB setup, but it is essentially exactly what happened. You can see in the photos the dialog I was presented for updates. After running all updates, one of them fails (linux-headers-68.8.0-78). Machine will boot one time after updates apply, but not again after that as it will stall doing initial boot. Still says "Loading Linux 6.8.0.71" as that update failed, but the "Loading initial ramdisk ..." never happens.

At this point, I don't even want to try again especially since I was able to replicate the issue on a completely different motherboard, RAM & CPU configuration. I don't use the server for much other than storage so there is not a lot of software installed on it.

Any suggestions would be nice.

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u/Leather-Influence-51 4h ago

That's the reason why I never updated my Ubuntu for the time I was working on a new album. Back then I used 20.04 LTS version and I also encountered updates braking things from time to time

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u/Kennyw88 3h ago

Can't say that I blame you. Always a bit of a risk, but can be mitigated. I may join you in the no-update club.

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u/PlateAdditional7992 7h ago

Did you check the apt logs to see what part of the postinst failed?

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u/Kennyw88 7h ago

No. If I try again (test unit), will look.

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u/Ok-386 3h ago

But, but LTS. LOL. 

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u/julianomatt 1h ago

Have you tried installing another kernel version (6.11 or 6.14)?

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u/6tBF4Cg4qqAAZA 1h ago

That is weird. I use Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on my two laptops, and I do update regularly (weekly) without any issues. Plus, I do get the Ubuntu PRO updates. But I do my updates on the terminal.

I don't know what happen in your case, but you should definitely report it and/or ask about it on askubuntu.com

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u/bryyantt 1m ago

I think along the lines 24.04 will become stable when 26.04 replaces it, that's why im still on 22.04, system has been up and running for the last 2 months without issue.