Tried to upgrade my testing Linode to new Ubuntu, upgrade did not work correctly (accidentally had something running which should not have been). It then was restarted.

Now can not connect to it all.

Going through Lish I get

console [netcon0] enabled
netconsole: network logging started
drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
EXT3-fs: barriers not enabled
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs (xvda): mounted filesystem with writeback data mode
VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly on device 202:0.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 848K (ffffffff81c9b000 - ffffffff81d6f000)
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 12288k
Freeing unused kernel memory: 260K (ffff8800017bf000 - ffff880001800000)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 1160K (ffff880001ade000 - ffff880001c00000)
init: Unable to create device: /dev/kmsg
random: init urandom read with 75 bits of entropy available
Filesystem check or mount failed.
A maintenance shell will now be started.
CONTROL-D will terminate this shell and continue booting after re-trying
filesystems. Any further errors will be ignored

The key part seems to be

init: Unable to create device: /dev/kmsg

I found this referencing problem with grub configuration resulting in this error:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... ot-failing

but since there is no Grub, can not do much with it

Anyone got any ideas?

Create a new Linode, install your apps, config from your server notes, copy data from backups.

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Managed to fix it. It was a really simple thing

mounted the drive and chroot to it

then just used apt-get to check and then fix it.

For whatever reason some of the packages failed to install first time and worked now. So no everything works