Thanks for coming back with the solution.
Though in a broader perspective: "you are holding it wrong" - get used to
the fact that you are running in the cloud and use it right - learn to
build your images from scratch so you can move to a updated base image and
automatically install and configure
Posting the fix to list, in case someone searches the archives:
Turns out that there were some leftover upstart files in /etc/init/, which
apparently belonged to an old package (lxcguest) which had been uninstalled
but left configured (possibly a remainder from a previous upgrade).
Moving them awa
whoops. Forgot to attach log:
Xen Minimal OS!
start_info: 0xa01000(VA)
nr_pages: 0x26700
shared_inf: 0x7ccbf000(MA)
pt_base: 0xa04000(VA)
nr_pt_frames: 0x9
mfn_list: 0x967000(VA)
mod_start: 0x0(VA)
mod_len: 0
flags: 0x
Hi list,
I have an Ubuntu machine on EC2, which I have been trying to upgrade from
12.04 to 14.04 using the do-release-upgrade command.
This seemed to work well, but when it finally rebooted, it became
unreachable (shows 1/2 checks passed in the EC2 management console, does
not respond to ssh).
I
