Kernel panic after attempting to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I have the following problem: I was trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 13.10 to Ubuntu 14.04 and in the middle (after the necessary packages were downloaded and beginning to be installed), I ran out of space so the whole process froze. After that the only thing I could do was to reboot.

But after the reboot I start getting a:

Kernel panic - not syncing : VFS : Unable to mount the root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu
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and continues with some Call Trace...

I can still enter the grub menu and select between old kernels and in this case it actually boots correctly with Ubuntu 14.04 but then I cannot do anything through the Unity GUI. I can however use a virtual console with Ctrl+Alt+F1 for example...

Anyone had the same problem or knows any way to fix this?

Thanks!

Solution

Maybe something went wrong during update and this will be enough?

Repair after bad update

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade

Comments

[pgr]

Firstly I thought about compiling new kernel but Unity problems suggested me unfinished installation