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ben44b 10-28-2009 10:55 PM
Cannot get into Ubuntu 9.10
 
Hello.

Upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04. I couldn't get past the splash screen which kept reloading (saw a message flash briefly about screen resolution). I got as far as getting an error message saying that the gnome-power-management was not installed correctly. Googled this and found that I could try removing gnome-power-manager, which I did.

Now, instead of getting the splash screen over and over again, the computer slowly makes its way to the login screen (which takes an eternity). Once I do punch in my login, this times it loops back into the login screen.

I have yet to make it in to try 9.10.

On 9.04, I had an issue with something like this. Ubuntu only worked when I could see at the boot screen: "Unable to load Description Tables". I don't see that message anymore since the upgrade.
(I remember something about ACPI or APCI but I'm not sure if that helps any.)


Thank you.

fang0654 10-29-2009 09:50 AM
At the grub menu when booting, press 'e' on the first kernel, delete the quiet and splash options at the end, and put acpi=off.

This will hopefully at least give you a clue as to what is going on during boot.

ben44b 10-31-2009 06:38 PM
Weird
 
Thanks for replying.

I took away the "quiet" on the kernel. There wasn't any splash screen. I can't seem to get the line acpi=off to stick.

To explain a little more: When I boot-up, I get the Ubuntu splash screen and then a small white terminal window in the upper-left corner of the screen. I can't get to the desktop. I can only do so if I load the "recovery mode" kernel. I type "startx" and the desktop comes up; but then I do something (like maximizing the synaptic window) and I get the mouse pointer (that doesn't move) with a total black screen. Total crash.

??

Wim Sturkenboom 11-01-2009 12:04 AM
The grub configuration is usually stored in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst ; to make acpi=off stick, you need to edit that file (with root privileges).

ronlau9 11-01-2009 05:09 AM
I thought in UBUNTU 9.10 it is stored in boot.cfg

Wim Sturkenboom 11-01-2009 07:20 AM
You might well be right. I heard that they switched to Grub 2 and read somewhere that the config file indeed has a different name.

I have no experience with 9.10

Bratmon 11-01-2009 08:26 AM
But the OP upgraded, thus he didn't change the bootloader at all so it's still menu.lst.

It only changes for fresh installs.

ben44b 11-01-2009 06:55 PM
Disabling IRQ #9
 
I got to change the /boot/grub/menu.lst and removed the "quiet" and "splash". Didn't change much except for a few lines.

Saw the line Disabling IRQ #9 ??

Don't know what it means.

ben44b 11-02-2009 09:43 PM
More info
 
25905] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 0.825959] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.826201] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[ 0.826260] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 1
[ 0.826313] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 2
[ 0.826390] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[ 0.826509] cpuidle: using governor ladder
[ 0.826561] cpuidle: using governor menu
[ 0.827336] TCP cubic registered
[ 0.827578] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 0.828282] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[ 0.828754] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 0.828839] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.13
[ 0.828889] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[ 0.828943] Bluetooth: SCO (Voice Link) ver 0.6
[ 0.828994] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[ 0.829111] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[ 0.829165] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[ 0.829217] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[ 0.829304] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[ 0.829469] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 0.829493] registered taskstats version 1
[ 0.829701] Magic number: 1:943:410
[ 0.829795] misc ecryptfs: hash matches
[ 0.829884] rtc_cmos 00:05: setting system clock to 2009-11-03 03:25:24 UTC (1257218724)
[ 0.829952] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 0.830006] EDD information not available.
[ 0.843349] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /devices/platform/i8042/serio0/input/input1
[ 0.968697] ata1.00: ATA-5: ST320011A, 3.35, max UDMA/100
[ 0.968753] ata1.00: 39102336 sectors, multi 16: LBA
[ 0.976644] ata2.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8160B, 0009, max UDMA/66
[ 0.984705] ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
[ 0.984921] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA ST320011A 3.35 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 0.985185] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[ 0.985295] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 39102336 512-byte logical blocks: (20.0 GB/18.6 GiB)
[ 0.985426] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 0.985479] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
[ 0.985514] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 0.985767] sda:
[ 0.992405] ata2.00: configured for UDMA/66
[ 0.993635] sda1 sda2 <
[ 0.998409] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8160B 0009 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[ 1.009171] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 20x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 1.009228] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 1.009410] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[ 1.009497] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
[ 1.011238] sda5 >
[ 1.011717] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[ 1.011793] Freeing unused kernel memory: 540k freed
[ 1.012746] Write protecting the kernel text: 4568k
[ 1.012839] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 1836k
[ 1.136793] usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 1.303752] usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1.383186] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 1.383420] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 1.383601] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 1.383657] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 1.402898] usb-storage: device found at 2
[ 1.402903] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 1.483288] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.24-k2-NAPI
[ 1.483350] e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 1.483468] e100 0000:02:08.0: found PCI INT A -> IRQ 11
[ 1.506980] e100 0000:02:08.0: PME# disabled
[ 1.569875] e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xc0100000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:09:6b:62:c6:f1
[ 1.846066] PM: Starting manual resume from disk
[ 1.846127] PM: Resume from partition 8:5
[ 1.846131] PM: Checking hibernation image.
[ 1.846431] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[ 1.889296] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[ 1.889371] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode.
[ 2.880806] type=1505 audit(1257218726.550:2): operation="profile_load" pid=308 name=/usr/share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession
[ 2.903246] type=1505 audit(1257218726.570:3): operation="profile_load" pid=309 name=/sbin/dhclient3
[ 2.904052] type=1505 audit(1257218726.570:4): operation="profile_load" pid=309 name=/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action
[ 2.904520] type=1505 audit(1257218726.570:5): operation="profile_load" pid=309 name=/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script
[ 2.954725] type=1505 audit(1257218726.622:6): operation="profile_load" pid=310 name=/usr/bin/evince
[ 2.966846] type=1505 audit(1257218726.634:7): operation="profile_load" pid=310 name=/usr/bin/evince-previewer
[ 2.973963] type=1505 audit(1257218726.642:8): operation="profile_load" pid=310 name=/usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer
[ 3.004943] type=1505 audit(1257218726.674:9): operation="profile_load" pid=312 name=/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf
[ 3.005878] type=1505 audit(1257218726.674:10): operation="profile_load" pid=312 name=/usr/sbin/cupsd
[ 4.835401] Adding 859436k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:859436k
[ 5.055572] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
[ 6.401729] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 6.402580] scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM SONY DVD RW DRU-820A 2.0c PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 6.412562] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[ 6.412770] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1
[ 6.412927] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5
[ 10.504211] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 11.018515] udev: starting version 147
[ 11.459169] __ratelimit: 3 callbacks suppressed
[ 11.459175] type=1505 audit(1257218735.128:12): operation="profile_replace" pid=462 name=/usr/share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession
[ 11.462206] type=1505 audit(1257218735.128:13): operation="profile_replace" pid=463 name=/sbin/dhclient3
[ 11.467887] type=1505 audit(1257218735.136:14): operation="profile_replace" pid=463 name=/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action
[ 11.468294] type=1505 audit(1257218735.136:15): operation="profile_replace" pid=463 name=/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script
[ 11.476551] type=1505 audit(1257218735.144:16): operation="profile_replace" pid=464 name=/usr/bin/evince
[ 11.604356] type=1505 audit(1257218735.272:17): operation="profile_replace" pid=464 name=/usr/bin/evince-previewer
[ 11.645390] type=1505 audit(1257218735.312:18): operation="profile_replace" pid=464 name=/usr/bin/evince-thumbnailer
[ 11.817753] type=1505 audit(1257218735.484:19): operation="profile_replace" pid=651 name=/usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf
[ 11.818616] type=1505 audit(1257218735.484:20): operation="profile_replace" pid=651 name=/usr/sbin/cupsd
[ 11.862761] type=1505 audit(1257218735.528:21): operation="profile_replace" pid=654 name=/usr/sbin/tcpdump
[ 12.819275] e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
[ 12.820103] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 16.566062] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[ 16.898947] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
[ 16.900116] intel_rng: Firmware space is locked read-only. If you can't or
[ 16.900119] intel_rng: don't want to disable this in firmware setup, and if
[ 16.900120] intel_rng: you are certain that your system has a functional
[ 16.900120] intel_rng: RNG, try using the 'no_fwh_detect' option.
[ 17.024533] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 830M Chipset
[ 17.024785] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: detected 8060K stolen memory
[ 17.026720] agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0x88000000
[ 17.064971] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 17.209556] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: found PCI INT B -> IRQ 9
[ 17.209585] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: sharing IRQ 9 with 0000:00:1f.3
[ 17.209631] Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: setting latency timer to 64
[ 17.580600] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 53981 usecs (2600 samples)
[ 17.580607] intel8x0: clocking to 48000
[ 17.584015] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[ 17.655117] psmouse serio1: ID: 10 00 64
[ 18.236979] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input2
[ 23.565774] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
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