fabio61
September 30th, 2018, 08:44 PM
Today I decided to upgrade form ubuntu 17.10 (that I used with Xfce) to 18.04.1 LTS.
After the upgrade I am not able to get into the system: I get the initial splashscreen (the screen with the "ubuntu" sign with the dots underneath that show the progress of the booting) but after a few moments (with the dots showing progress) the mouse pointer appears on the screen and everything stops.
I tried several options and I was able to get into the system starting a recovery session, activating the network from there, and then pressing contol-c to obtain the password prompt. At this point everything seems working but the resolution is very poor (everything is fuzzy) even if the "screen" settings shows a 1280/1024 resolution (but it is obvious that the dimensions on the monitor are ok but the graphic aspect is not)
Obviously, if I try to boot the system again I get to the same frozen screen after a few second of splashscreen. I can only get in with the recovery/network activation/control-c routine.
This is my hardware:
lshw -short
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
H/W path Device Class Description
================================================
system Computer
/0 bus Motherboard
/0/0 memory 1983MiB System memory
/0/1 processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.8
/0/100 bridge 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller
/0/100/2 display 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Contr
/0/100/1b multimedia NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Cont
/0/100/1c bridge NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c/0 enp1s0 network RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ether
/0/100/1d bus NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1 bus NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2 bus NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.3 bus NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1d.7 bus NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Brid
/0/100/1f.2 storage NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode]
/0/100/1f.3 bus NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller
/0/2 scsi0 storage
/0/2/0.1.0 /dev/cdrom disk DVD-RAM GH10L
/1 scsi2 storage
/2 scsi3 storage
/3 scsi4 storage
lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2] (rev 10)
After the upgrade I am not able to get into the system: I get the initial splashscreen (the screen with the "ubuntu" sign with the dots underneath that show the progress of the booting) but after a few moments (with the dots showing progress) the mouse pointer appears on the screen and everything stops.
I tried several options and I was able to get into the system starting a recovery session, activating the network from there, and then pressing contol-c to obtain the password prompt. At this point everything seems working but the resolution is very poor (everything is fuzzy) even if the "screen" settings shows a 1280/1024 resolution (but it is obvious that the dimensions on the monitor are ok but the graphic aspect is not)
Obviously, if I try to boot the system again I get to the same frozen screen after a few second of splashscreen. I can only get in with the recovery/network activation/control-c routine.
This is my hardware:
lshw -short
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
H/W path Device Class Description
================================================
system Computer
/0 bus Motherboard
/0/0 memory 1983MiB System memory
/0/1 processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.8
/0/100 bridge 82G33/G31/P35/P31 Express DRAM Controller
/0/100/2 display 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Contr
/0/100/1b multimedia NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Cont
/0/100/1c bridge NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c/0 enp1s0 network RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ether
/0/100/1d bus NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1 bus NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2 bus NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.3 bus NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1d.7 bus NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f bridge 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Brid
/0/100/1f.2 storage NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [IDE mode]
/0/100/1f.3 bus NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller
/0/2 scsi0 storage
/0/2/0.1.0 /dev/cdrom disk DVD-RAM GH10L
/1 scsi2 storage
/2 scsi3 storage
/3 scsi4 storage
lspci -nn | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 82G33/G31 Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:29c2] (rev 10)