Upgrading Mate from 15.04 to 15.10 on Raspberry Pi crashes and corrupts the SD card

Support & Help Requests Raspberry Pi
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Hi all,

Anyone else had trouble upgrading the RPi2? I received a timeout operation upgrading one of the packages which locked the GUI up. Doing a hard restart found lots of file system errors and resulted in a black screen lockup. Each boot now ends very quickly in a kernal panic:

Kernal panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root FS on unknown-block(179,2)

Thoughts? I'm going to have to re-flash my SD card as I need the box back up quickly and won't be able to do any further testing on it.

Rich

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Don’t try upgrading to Pi version, it simply won’t work and will also take hours. Is it possible you filled to microSDHC card.

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Hi,

The SD card had plenty of space on it ~13gb free. If the upgrade isn’t going to work then the option needs removing from the system.

Rich