On 2022-01-31 05:41, George H. Griffin wrote:
Thanks, Felix, for your quick reply. I should have caught the problem myself, but was careless, and once I started having trouble I developed tunnel vision looking past simpler solutions for something obscure. I did think it rather strange that no one else had reported that problem.
As a followup, I did an update on the the Dell which went very smoothly. I also ran an update from 15.2 on an old, ~8 year old, HP Pavilion running 15.2. The initial update hung near the end--caps lock LED blinking, mouse, touch pad, and keyboard dead.
That's a kernel panic. It is unfortunate that there will not be logs. Next time it happens try [ctrl][alt][f1] through [f10] (if it works!) to see if any console has kernel logs, and then take a photo to report it.
I did a hard reboot and while it wouldn't boot from the first kernel on the boot menu, I got a message that the kernel wasn't installed, it did boot from the second kernel on the boot menu. In the end I redid the update from the beginning and it seems to be working fine now.
Thanks again for pointing out what the problem was, though I'm a bit embarrassed I didn't catch it myself.
Heh, I was a bit confused myself as to what image I needed, and I have been doing this for over two decades ;-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.3 x86_64 at Telcontar)