nlieb
February 26th, 2013, 06:02 PM
I'm having a problem with a rather serious error when running from livecd and I want to make sure that it won't be an issue after installation.
Occasionally, when I access a program or give ubuntu a command, I'll be taken to the login screen. When I log back on using the username "ubuntu" and no password, I have to restart all programs I had been running. If I was running firefox, however, it remembers my session.
At first I tried restarting - obviously this didn't work, or I wouldn't be on these fora. Then I thought it might be my dvds - got a new set of dvds, wasn't that. Than checked that it wasn't my burner - burnt livecds on three different burners, all have had this error. I've also tried downloading the iso a second time, over an ethernet connection - this did not fix things. My thoughts are that either the iso that canonical is putting out is inherently bad, which seems unlikely, or that it isn't syncing properly with my hardware.
With the second, more likely scenario in mind, the rig I'm running this on consists of:
Motherboard: Tyan S2895 K8WE
Chipset: Nforce 4 professional, with auxiliary chipset the name of which I can't remember allowing full x16 speed on the dual pci express 1.0 slots.
CPU: Dual Opteron dual core 285
Memory: 16gb registered ddr-400 sdram, with each processor having an independent two-channel system
Graphics: Nvidia 650 Ti gtx (manufactured by gigabyte, 2gb vram). In the original system build, I ran two 7800 gtxs in sli, but I decided to update to something more modern because I wanted to hook this up to my receiver and because I'm a physics major and I want to run CUDA.
Hard drives - two 500gb hitachi deskstars (can't remember model number, but they were the first of their kind, largest available when I bought them) in software raid 0. In windows the raid is achieved using nvraid, which I understand to be a software raid somehow working through the nforce chipset. Not sure how my raid array is detected in ubuntu, but it is.
Optical - Pioneer BDR-207MBK. Also have access to the original sata plextor dvd+-r/rw burner and a pata cdrom drive pulled from a dell.
Floppy disk drive - 3.5 inch hooked up, 5.25 inch disconnected (more there for decoration).
Power- 1.2 kW max capacity, gold rated efficiency (I assume it can handle the components above listed).
Also, and this might or might not be related, when I tried installing crashplan to make a redundant backup of my data, I had to manually start part of the program that should have been started by the launch script.
Thanks for the help
- Ned
Occasionally, when I access a program or give ubuntu a command, I'll be taken to the login screen. When I log back on using the username "ubuntu" and no password, I have to restart all programs I had been running. If I was running firefox, however, it remembers my session.
At first I tried restarting - obviously this didn't work, or I wouldn't be on these fora. Then I thought it might be my dvds - got a new set of dvds, wasn't that. Than checked that it wasn't my burner - burnt livecds on three different burners, all have had this error. I've also tried downloading the iso a second time, over an ethernet connection - this did not fix things. My thoughts are that either the iso that canonical is putting out is inherently bad, which seems unlikely, or that it isn't syncing properly with my hardware.
With the second, more likely scenario in mind, the rig I'm running this on consists of:
Motherboard: Tyan S2895 K8WE
Chipset: Nforce 4 professional, with auxiliary chipset the name of which I can't remember allowing full x16 speed on the dual pci express 1.0 slots.
CPU: Dual Opteron dual core 285
Memory: 16gb registered ddr-400 sdram, with each processor having an independent two-channel system
Graphics: Nvidia 650 Ti gtx (manufactured by gigabyte, 2gb vram). In the original system build, I ran two 7800 gtxs in sli, but I decided to update to something more modern because I wanted to hook this up to my receiver and because I'm a physics major and I want to run CUDA.
Hard drives - two 500gb hitachi deskstars (can't remember model number, but they were the first of their kind, largest available when I bought them) in software raid 0. In windows the raid is achieved using nvraid, which I understand to be a software raid somehow working through the nforce chipset. Not sure how my raid array is detected in ubuntu, but it is.
Optical - Pioneer BDR-207MBK. Also have access to the original sata plextor dvd+-r/rw burner and a pata cdrom drive pulled from a dell.
Floppy disk drive - 3.5 inch hooked up, 5.25 inch disconnected (more there for decoration).
Power- 1.2 kW max capacity, gold rated efficiency (I assume it can handle the components above listed).
Also, and this might or might not be related, when I tried installing crashplan to make a redundant backup of my data, I had to manually start part of the program that should have been started by the launch script.
Thanks for the help
- Ned