Ubuntu 11.10 boot problem
Today i had a network issue on my system, so i tried rebooting my Ubuntu 11.10 server which acts like a router, firewall, DHCP and DNS server for my network. Turns out there was a rather big problem with Ubuntu 11.10 if you upgraded from a previous version.
It seems that in Ubuntu 11.10 the directory containing running processes information and lock files has changed, or well, it has for certain programs. This results in a system where certain daemons/programs expect to find sockets in /var/run, while they are present in /run, or vice versa.
This might result in a boot problem looking like this:
The first lines are not so important, what is important are the last two. It says:
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1 2 |
unable to connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket : connection refused Waiting for network configuration... |
After that last one, you might get that it waits for another 60 seconds for network configuration, but it will get stuck in boot after that.
Luckily i had my 3G enabled phone close, so i could do some searching, which gave me a link to a bug report and a forum post with a fix. In short, few simple steps can help you out here:
- reboot into recovery mode
- start a root shell
- mount the filesystem as read/write:
1mount -o remount,rw / - move everything from /var/run into /run:
1mv /var/run/* /run/ - move /var/lock into /run:
1mv /var/lock /run/ - create symlinks from /var/run to /run and /var/run/lock to /var/lock:
12ln -s /run /var/runln -s /run/lock /var/lock - reboot
Worked like charm here. Hope this helps.
