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filsdepapa
June 5th, 2010, 05:05 PM
Hi
I have a destop which is an IBM ThinkCentre. Recently I ran uburntu 9.10 but I have tried to upgrade to 10.4 Lucid. It took a week long to download and another week to install. I don't remember after it finished to install and asked me to do? Because it asked me there are 300 old files which are not compatible so what I need to do with them? keep or remove? Unfortunately, I don't know in computer, and also for the fear to loose Asterisk files, I click on "KEEP". Therefore, the system continues to clean my folders and files...thus few minutes later, my screen turned to black...and it's still black now. I forgot to mention the screen when it downloaded to upgrade, the screen was black too, but I didn't stop to RESTART EVERYDAY to make sure my PC is working.

NOW my screen is black. If I turn it on I get the grubs as below:

uburntu 10.4 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-22 generic
uburntu 10.4 LTS, kernel 2.6.32.22 generic (recovery)
uburntu 10.4 LTS, Kernel 2.6.31-21 generic
uburntu 10.4 LTS, kernel 2.6.31-21 generic (recovery)
uburntu 10.4 LTS, kernel 2.6.31-20 generic

same repeat as above.....2.6.31-20 generic (recovery)
same.............................2.6.31-19 generic
same.............................2.6.31-19 generic (rec...)
same.............................2.6.31-18 gen.
same.............................2.6.31-18 gen..(rec)
same.............................2.6.31-17 gene.
same.............................2.6.31-17 gene.(rec.)
same.............................2.6.31-16 gene
same.............................2.6.31-16 gene (rec.)

Use the arrow (up) and (down) keys to select which entry is highlighted. Press enter to boot the select OS, 'e' to edit the command before booting, or 'c' for command-line.

If I don't choose any line above, then the line that is highlight is automatically the first line which is:
uburntu 10.4 LTS. kernel 2.6.32-22 generic
If I do nothing , once time (seconds) is past over, the following screen appears:

Boot from (hdO,5) ext3 a09111ce-7ba2-491c-9996-eba033470de3
Starting up ...

NOW IF I CHOOSE and pressing on "e" (editing) the line
uburntu 10.4 LTS, kernel2.6.32-22 generic
I GET THESE CODES
uuid a09111ce-7ba2-491c-9996-eba033470de3
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=uuid=a09111ce-7ba2-491c-->
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
quiet

NOW IF I HIGHLIGHT AND PRESS (E) ON THE LINE
uuid a09111ce-7ba2-491c-9996-eba033470de3
I get the following message and codes:
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible completions of a device/filename. ESC at anytime to exit. ]

grub edit> uuid a09111ce-7ba2-491c-9996-eba033470de3

NOW IF I HIGHLIGHT THE SECOND LINE AND PRESS (E)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic..........491c-->
I get the following message and codes:
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible completions of a device/filename. ESC at anytime to exit. ]

<e-7ba2-491c-9996-eba033470de3 ro quiet splash

Now if I highlight the 3rd line and press on (e) that is:
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
What i get?
[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists possible completions of a device/filename. ESC at anytime to exit. ]

grub edit> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic

After all, I don't know what to do? My screen is still black even I boot one of these kernels or grubs above.

Does anyone can help me or give me any suggestion? I am appreciated. I have no knowledge in computer. I understand I will go around if you give me just a little detail. but better then nothing.

Thank you.

dino99
June 5th, 2010, 05:17 PM
your grub menu looks good, no need to edit it, select recovery mode to boot, your problem seems to be due to graphic driver not activated

then after login, on the command line:

sudo rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f (accept the propositions)
sudo dpkg --configure -a

more info with the links below

filsdepapa
June 5th, 2010, 10:51 PM
your grub menu looks good, no need to edit it, select recovery mode to boot, your problem seems to be due to graphic driver not activated

then after login, on the command line:

sudo rm -f /etc/X11/xorg.conf
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -f (accept the propositions)
sudo dpkg --configure -a

more info with the links below

Hi,
Thanks for your reply. So now I select recovery mode to boot and what I get now?
Recovery Menu
clean Try to make free space
dpkg Repair broken packages
fallsafe Run in fallsafe graphic mode
grub Upgrate grub bootloader
netroot Drop to root shell prompt with network
root drop to root shell prompt


'ok' 'cancel'

What do I do next, please? In addition, what's a graphic driver?

Thank you

filsdepapa
June 6th, 2010, 03:32 AM
Hi,
Thanks for your reply. So now I select recovery mode to boot and what I get now?
Recovery Menu
clean Try to make free space
dpkg Repair broken packages
fallsafe Run in fallsafe graphic mode
grub Upgrate grub bootloader
netroot Drop to root shell prompt with network
root drop to root shell prompt


'ok' 'cancel'

What do I do next, please? In addition, what's a graphic driver?

Thank you

AFTER ALL, I press "enter" and BOOT THE LINE
dpkg Repair broken packages
Now the screen is stopped at this point, it requires what? I don't know what to answer?
Recovery Menu
clean Try to make free space
dpkg Repair broken packages
fallsafe Run in fallsafe graphic mode
grub Upgrate grub bootloader
netroot Drop to root shell prompt with network
root drop to root shell prompt

re-sysinit Star/running, process 15939
*Not starting internet superserver: no services enable
*Sttarting Fostfix Mail Transport Agent postfix
Starting fto server:Running:/usr/sbin/pure-ftpd-1pam -E -8 UTF -8 -u 1000 -0 clf: /var/log/pure-ftdp/ transfer log -B
*Scee ch-dispatcher configured for war sessions
*Starting the winbind daemon winbind
*Starting common unix Printing system: cupsd
*FulseAudio configured for per-user sessions
Enabling additional executable binary formats binfnt-support
*checking battery state...

Uburntu 10.4 LTS filsdemaman-destop tty1
filsdemaman-destop login:{B{B
Password:
login timeout after 60 seconds
uburntu 10.4 LTS filsdemaman-destop tty1


With the message above, anybody can help me please? If I type "enter" I'll get again
Uburntu 10.4 LTS filsdemaman-destop tty1

Thanks

kansasnoob
June 9th, 2010, 06:17 AM
After recovery mode completes choose failsafeX and see what happens. If that get's you a desktop we need to see the output from terminal of:


lspci | grep VGA

If failsafeX fails we still need to know the output of that command so use any Live CD or Live USB that will run on that machine to get that output.

That will give us specific graphics chip info. There are specific issues with various graphics chips:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Window%20corruption%20with%20older%20 ATI%20graphics%20cards

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Incompatibility%20with%20nVidia%20ups tream%20driver%20installer

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidLynx/ReleaseNotes#Intel%208xx%20X%20freezes/crashes

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes

But you must first know what graphics chip you have.