Ubuntu will not boot.

[sirebral]

This has never happened to me before.

Currently my Mini 9 is in a brick state since Ubuntu will not boot completely. I receive the error message


The display server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds. It is likely that something bad is going on. Waiting for 2 minutes before trying again on the display :0


So the culprit is the display. This makes sense because I fell asleep watching Adult Swim and my Mini 9 went to sleep too. When I awoke and woke my mini the audio for the adult swim episode could be heard but the system never fully awoke.

Any ideas?

[albinootje]

Currently my Mini 9 is in a brick state since Ubuntu will not boot completely.

Is it in a messed up suspend or hibernate state ?
Can you get a prompt, and then shut it down with this command :

sudo halt

If that works, try a reboot after that complete shutdown (halt).

[sirebral]

It did not work. Bummer. I even tried starting and stopping Gnome Display Manager. Not sure what to do right now.

[sirebral]

So my next step was to hunt down menu.lst so I could edit the Grub timeout. I managed that and now I am looking at, after recover mode and continuing to regular boot;


*Starting web server apache2
apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName


So this might be the whole of the problem. Next step, an attempt to fix the X-Server.

[sirebral]

Hrm.. I got past that error by adding

ServerName localhost to my /etc/apache2/apache2.conf file, but now I have the same problem with no error.

Ubuntu will not load and I get an error box that has the text in all boxes. Nothing is readable.

[coffeeaddict22]

Boot into a recovery console, and select the option to "repair my Display" (or something like that). Essentially it runs xfix, but it sounds like that's what you need.

[sirebral]

tried running xfix. Not working.

[albinootje]

tried running xfix. Not working.

Is the screen okay when you boot into a live session from a cdrom or usb stick ?
If so, can you compare /etc/X11/xorg.conf ?

And can you do a force file system check ?
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-force-fsck-on-the-next-reboot-or-boot-sequence/

[sirebral]

I have decided to try and update to 9.04 to see if that fixes the problem. I think 8.10 is no longer supported so I am going to try with the version that is supported.

[albinootje]

I have decided to try and update to 9.04 to see if that fixes the problem. I think 8.10 is no longer supported so I am going to try with the version that is supported.

Hmm, well, 7.10 is no longer supported, but 8.10 has support till April 2010. See here : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

[sirebral]

Oh. I already started the update through terminal.

[albinootje]

Oh. I already started the update through terminal.

Okay :) Good luck!

[sirebral]

well, that fixed it. Now I have another problem. new thread!

):P