So I upgraded my raring to saucy using update-manager -d The process was done downloading updated packages from saucy repo and then was on the process of installing them when my screen turned to a text based interface with the last 2 lines being
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5533.546415 kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! exitcode = 0x0000ff00
[5533.54675] drm_kms_helper: panic occured, switching back to text console
After "console" nothing follows, and nothing I do could make my sytem respond in any way, sudo, Ctrl-Alt-F1 -> F6 ,REISUB, etc, and could only bring it down with a hard shutdown through a long press of the power button. After restart, everything "seems" alright apt-get update works until I try to manually apt-get upgrade, which then says something wrong with dpkg and I should manually input dpkg --configure -a. When I do try, it reverts to the same crash ending in the same 2 lines as * above. I also tried aptitude and synaptic manager but they don't work either.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.192.13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-32.47-generic 3.8.13.10
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.4
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Sat Oct 12 02:40:59 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-24 (200 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-10-11 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
I was experiencing a similar issue. When trying to upgrade libc, freezing the machine right after showing:
Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
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I (seem to have) solved my issue by disabling the wireless card (and plugging into a wired connection).