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.

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.

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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.

??

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).

I thought in UBUNTU 9.10 it is stored in boot.cfg

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

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.

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.

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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