"Black Screen of Death" on Ubuntu 8.04 fresh install HELP PLEASE!!!
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"Black Screen of Death" on Ubuntu 8.04 fresh install HELP PLEASE!!!
Hi, now I'm having a big problem...
I just installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my powerpc machine, and I rebooted the computer.
At the first prompt, I choose "l" for linux, then yaboot comes up. I do "Linux", and it starts booting up. Then, the screen turns black and it says "Loading" for about half a second. Then, then screen is totally black. Nothing. I tried Ctrl-Alt-Delete, Ctrl-Alt-F1.
If possible, boot from the cd, open a console and look at the hard drive in /var/log to see what messages are being posted, especially in Dmesg. There could be an explanation there.
i typed in "cat /var/log/syslog" it displayed a lot of output, and unfortunately you can't scroll up.
here's the last lines i can read:
Code:
Oct 11 05:40:11 kernel: [ 5.584600] usbcore: registered new interface dirver usbfs
(date) kernel: [ 5.584674] usbcore: registered new interface driver hug
(date and kernel and number in brackets:) usbcore: registered new divece driver us
(date and kernel and number in brackets:)ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
(date and kernel and number in brackets:) PCI: Enabling device 00001:10:18.0: OHCI Host Controller
(date and kernel and number in brackets:) ochi_hck 00001:10:18.0: irq 27, io mem 0x80081000
(date and kernel and number in brackets:) usb usb1: configuration 31 chosen from 1 choice
(date and kernel and number in brackets:) hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
(date and kernel and number in brackets:) hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
(date and kernel and number in brackets:) PCI: Enabling device 00001:10:19.0 (0000 -> 0002)
(date and kernel and number in brackets:) ochi_hck 0001:10:19.0: OHCI Host Controller
(date and kernel and number in brackets:) ohci_hck 0001:10:19.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Then some more lines about all of my hardware. Post if you think this is needed.
At the end there's something interesting:
Code:
DEBUG: resolver (libc6): package doesn't exist (ignored)
DEBUG: resolver (libnext0.52): package doesn't exist (ignored)
INFO: Falling back to the package description for console-setup-udeb
INFO: Menu item 'localechooser' selcted
debconf: Setting debconf/language to en
init: Starting pid 2060, console /dev/tty2: '/bin/sh'
Sorry, had a couple of days off, couldn't get near a computer.
One of those debug lines looks worrying. libc6 is rather important, and if it isn't installed the system is unlikely to work. Are you able to verify the cd. It may be the problem.
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