The new update broke my PI

[WarheadsSE]

Updating to
raspberrypi-firmware-20130116-1-any.pkg.tar.xz and
linux-raspberrypi-3.6.11-4-armv6h.pkg.tar.xz
totally broke my PI. The kernel did not boot at all.

I manually copied the old kernel image to my SD card and
after that the machine booted again, but with no LVM so
I was still missing my /var which is on LVM on a separate HDD.
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[root@alivoima ~]# pvs
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Check that device-mapper is available in the kernel.
PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree
/dev/sda5 alivoima lvm2 a-- 133.05g 125.05g
[root@alivoima ~]# vgs
/dev/mapper/control: open failed: No such device
Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver.
Check that device-mapper is available in the kernel.
VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree
alivoima 1 5 0 wz--n- 133.05g 125.05g
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Mounted the SD and the disk on my desktop and untarred
linux-raspberrypi-3.6.11-3-armv6h.pkg.tar.xz and
raspberrypi-firmware-20130110-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
onto them, and now the system works again.

[tgc]

Is anybody else having this issue? I'm a bit nervous about updating if this is a generel problem...

[ajs124]

Hi, what SD card are you using when experiencing this problem?
There seems to be some problems with certain cards at the moment (e.g. mine didn't boot before this update…).

[WarheadsSE]

I wonder if something changes in the config for the kernel ? That would seemingly explain the LVM issue.

[pepedog]

I have been strangely silent, because a similar problem has just been fixed with this update. Just certain sd cards were affected.
So back to basics here,
The middle step of just copying kernel.img wouldn't have had matching modules.
Did you sync before reboot?
Have you tried another card and update that?
The last update only contained a rtc hardware, and upstream kernel changes, if there was problems there would be quite a few posts by now.

Tgc, don't be a wimp, do the update, sync, reboot

[tgc]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pepedog', 'T')gc, don't be a wimp, do the update, sync, reboot

[Fook]

I tried the upgrade again today, and now it was all OK. So probably just some glitch in my system back then. Sorry to have alarmed you all.

[pepedog]

Thanks for letting us know. Have I ever said sync before rebooting?

[Fook]

BTW, the "Topic reply notification" mail got killed by spamassassin, because:

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Content analysis details: (5.4 points, 5.0 required)

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