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Jiketsu
April 16th, 2012, 10:39 AM
[ now solved ]

Well turns out if I press keys when the purple screen first comes up, I get a HUD.. so I hit F6 to choose some options and I marked a bunch of them and voila problem solved. I don't know which one fixed it, but it was definitely not the first 3.

Thanks anyways. Too bad I couldn't just delete this post..


[ original msg ]

Hey. I downloaded the CD version of 12.04 and tried installing it. It seemed to start fine, I had the purple screen with the loading bullets...

Then it went to the terminal-looking screen and said some stuff about...

* Starting blah blah blah [ OK ]
* Starting blah blah blah [ OK ]
* Starting blah blah blah [ OK ]
* Starting blah blah blah [ OK ]
* Starting blah blah blah [ OK ]

And then it stopped here. The last thing it said was:

* Starting Ubuntu live CD installer [ OK ]
saned disabled; edit /etc/default/sanedefault/speech-dispatcher [ OK ]

I hit ctrl+alt+f1 to get a new terminal and typed dmesg. At the end of the output were these two lines:

[drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
init: lightdm main process (2980) terminated with status 1


I didn't really know what to think so I waited another 10 minutes and tried installation again. It repeated the same as before but now on the installation screen the final line says..

* Stopping CPU interrupts balancing daemonlt/speech-dispatcher [ OK ]

However now when I check dmesg again, it's the same as before:

[drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
init: lightdm main process (2980) terminated with status 1

So I assume whatever this is is what is causing the installation to fail. Any ideas on what to do?

The box it is being installed on is an old custom built.. the motherboard is an Abit AV8 with via vt8237.. if that helps.

Thank you so very much for your help, if any :)

-Ji

mholton12
April 30th, 2012, 04:05 AM
my bad read this fourm rong and dont know how to delet message didnt see the answer beside the solve