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rdotex
December 5th, 2008, 11:02 PM
I downloaded and burned a CD of 8.04.1 and used the LiveCD several times to be sure everything worked. In fact, I was very pleased, since my LAN was detected and was accessible, as was the internet. So, I decided to install it. This was on a machine that I had been running Linspire for several years, the last was v6.0.

The install took over 2 hours. Now, when I boot, I get a black screen with the logo and a small bar beneath that goes back and forth for a minute or so, then stops for a couple of minutes and gives me a terminal screen with a lot of data scrolling which stops with the following displayed:

"Starting up ...
Loading, please wait...
kinit: name_to_dev_t(/dev/disk/by-uuid/33e08db3-f6c7-4f31-aa5f-a20b98fa4dd7) = sda3(8,3)
kinit: trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/33e08db3-f6c7-4f31-aa5f-a20b98fa4dd7
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot...

Ubuntu 8.04.1 No1 tty1

No1 login: "

When I login using my known id and pwrd, I get a fast scrolling screen that stops with a screen full of
"-bash: /dev/null: Permission denied" followed by
ron@No1:~$

I don't know what to do now.

Any suggestions?

jenkinbr
December 5th, 2008, 11:08 PM
Sounds like you had an installation issue. Have you tried re-installing to see if this is reproduced?

Therion
December 5th, 2008, 11:09 PM
Almost without exception when I've had an issue like that it's been due to a bad burn of the install media. I'd suggest you re-burn the install disc and burn it really slooooow (e.g. 2x for a DVD, 16x for a CD).

Also, did you verify the download using the SHA-1 or MD5 Sum?

I use torrents exclusively any more since every torrent download is self-verifying and eliminates the need for MD5/SHA-1 checks.

rdotex
December 5th, 2008, 11:15 PM
I haven't tried to re-install, since it took so long the first time I was hoping I wouldn't need to do that.

I did verify the md5 of the download. Burned a CD at 4x and ran the "Check CD for defects" on the CD. I didn't know how to check the CD otherwise.

Edit: I did use the BitTorrent for the download.

jenkinbr
December 5th, 2008, 11:30 PM
Could you scan up and down in the terminal window to see if some of the errors generated might give us a clue? If you spot something questionable, let us know what it says.

hint: ctrl + shift + up/down can be used to scroll up and down through the terminal window

rdotex
December 5th, 2008, 11:44 PM
I tried the 'ctrl+shift+up/down arrows' and 'ctrl+shift+pageup/down' and nothing works!

When done before login, it adds some characters after the cursor, but does absolutely nothing after login.

jack102
December 6th, 2008, 12:48 AM
hi guys i have just downloaded Ubuntu 8.04 desktop and when i insert the disk into my optical drive i can select the language then i am asked what i would like to do. i highlight install and press enter then an error comes up saying:

I/0 Error
Error reading boot cd


in the top left hand corner some text comes up which is: 204200ef

looking for help. thanks

jack

rdotex
December 6th, 2008, 03:48 AM
Jack: Please start your own thread!
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Since I was getting nowhere, I decided to try to re-burn a CD at 1x speed and re-install.

I cannot get past the partition screen, no matter what I do, manual or otherwise, it won't go. Message says that "formatting of swap partition failed" . I've tried changing everything and no go.

what next?

Therion
December 9th, 2008, 11:21 PM
Sorry... Wrong thread.