Mariane
April 3rd, 2012, 07:32 PM
Hi,
I tried upgrading from 11.4 to 11.10 by typing
sudo do-release-upgrade
It downloaded packages during over 4 hours (slow connection), then it took over one more hour to install everything. Finally it said I had to reboot.
I typed y for "yes, reboot".
It stopped things, and eventually it reached a stage where it was saying:
checking battery state... OK
And then nothing. I finally pressed the button and it stopped completely. Then I pressed it again to start it.
Grub functions. The option on top of the list is 30.0.0.17 or something like that. When it is selected, the screen displays "KUBUNTU" with the little dots underneath it, as if it was booting normally.
Then it reverts to white upon black text. It sais "I'm starting this, I'm stopping that", the last line again becomes "checking battery state". And nothing. I wish it would forget about the battery, the computer is plugged into the mains anyway.
I tried failsafe options. At one point it said it could not find its screen. I copied xorg.conf.failsafe over xorg.conf. At another point it seemed to be saying the file system was read-only, so it could not startx or do xinit because it could not write the lock file somewhere. I can't install any packages nor even do apt-get update because it does not connect to the internet.
I tried
sudo service kdm start
and when that failed I tried
sudo service kdm stop
sudo service gdm start
It seems that whatever I do it always ends up checking the battery state.
Please help.
I tried upgrading from 11.4 to 11.10 by typing
sudo do-release-upgrade
It downloaded packages during over 4 hours (slow connection), then it took over one more hour to install everything. Finally it said I had to reboot.
I typed y for "yes, reboot".
It stopped things, and eventually it reached a stage where it was saying:
checking battery state... OK
And then nothing. I finally pressed the button and it stopped completely. Then I pressed it again to start it.
Grub functions. The option on top of the list is 30.0.0.17 or something like that. When it is selected, the screen displays "KUBUNTU" with the little dots underneath it, as if it was booting normally.
Then it reverts to white upon black text. It sais "I'm starting this, I'm stopping that", the last line again becomes "checking battery state". And nothing. I wish it would forget about the battery, the computer is plugged into the mains anyway.
I tried failsafe options. At one point it said it could not find its screen. I copied xorg.conf.failsafe over xorg.conf. At another point it seemed to be saying the file system was read-only, so it could not startx or do xinit because it could not write the lock file somewhere. I can't install any packages nor even do apt-get update because it does not connect to the internet.
I tried
sudo service kdm start
and when that failed I tried
sudo service kdm stop
sudo service gdm start
It seems that whatever I do it always ends up checking the battery state.
Please help.