Kubuntu 10.04 Freezes During Boot As Of This Morning

[robertv]

I have had Kubuntu 10.04 installed and running fine for a few days now. However, this morning when I attempted to boot it froze on the blue Kubuntu screen with the five dots. None of the dots illuminated, it just appeared to show the first image statically. After a few minutes still nothing had happened. I have repeated this 3 times and each time it behaves the same. Trying to switch to a different console did not work, so I couldn't get any text output as to what exactly was going on, if anything.

If it matters I have an ATI graphics card, and am using the drivers suggested by the Hardware Drivers application.

I am currently using a Live CD to post this. Let me know if you want any specific information about the system.

[sourcerh]

I'm experiencing exactly the same problem as you...

I'm writing from another laptop.

Have you found a way to solve this critical problem ?

For now, I let the laptop run all this day, hoping this blue screen will disappear...

The fact is, some days before, ubuntu has checked the disks, and it has taken a very long long time... (a thing that was taking a couple of minutes before upgrading to 10.04...)


Why have I upgraded to this crappy 10.04 so quickly.... rha...

[robertv]

So far my only solution is forcing a reboot when the screen shows by hitting the power button on my PC. After a few times it's like Kubuntu finally gives in and let's me boot That's dreadful for usability.

If the disk check is what is causing this, shouldn't a message be displayed on screen to let the user know? Also, I've left it on that screen for far longer than a disk check ever took on 9.10. That suggests to me that a disk check isn't causing it.

[kacm88]

Hello, I've been having the same problem booting. I installed 10.04 on Saturday, it was working until this afternoon. I get the Kubuntu loading screen with the dots, and after that it shows me a black screen with a cursor and it freezes. Weird thing is that sometimes this happens but sometimes it doesn't.

If I press shift, I can see the GRUB loader and I can load Kubuntu but it shouldn't be this way.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Sounds like slowly failing hardware. (The motherboard or HDD.)

[fuzzyworm]

I'm having the same problem, and I really hope it's not failing hardware - it's all brand new!

It only does it to me when I switch on for the first time - restarts, either soft or hard, don't trigger it.

Also, it never happened in 9.10 - it was only after I upgraded to 10.04.

I too have an ATI Graphics card - maybe that's the problem. I might try disabling the proprietary hardware.

[Azazelus]

I guess it is not related to any particular graphic card. I am having the same problem on nVidia. What is strange is that it's completelly non deterministic - sometimes system starts up without problems, somethimes it hangs.

This issue didn't show up after upgrading to 10.04, i would rather blame one of the recent updates.

[Azazelus]

Any news?
For several days problem seemed to disappear, but today I've had to go through 5 or 6 restarts before being able to log-in. Sometimes it didn't hang on blue kubuntu startup page, it started Xs but apparently some invalid driver was loaded (artifacts on the screen, very slow response time, eventually freezing).

I went through grepping all the logs but didn't find anything interesting. To be honest I'm not sure what should I look for...