Hi! MAFoElffen, Sorry, I thought your knowing how my set-up got there would enable you understand what needed to be done.
You posted:
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1. What is ypur chief complaint?
2. What does your computer do?
3. On boot, how far does it get before it locks up?
4. Please post the output of "lspci -vnn | grep VGA" and,
5. your /var/log/xorg.0.log file.
Answers:
1. I cannot get updated Ubuntu 11.10 to run beyond a text login, into a graphics screen.
2. When, in the grub menu, I select Linux10.04, 2.6.32-34, it runs perfectly normally.
When I select Linux11.10, 3.0.0-12, it goes ( with variations ) to a text login or a root prompt.
The first shows
Code:
ubuntu 11.10 alan-MS-7318 tty1
alan-MS-7318 login:
, The second shows text ( see below ) and "root@alan-MS-7318~#"; if I enter 'exit' and press return, it shows additional text ending in;
Code:
*Checking battery state...
alan-MS-7318~#
In both cases, entering
Code:
sudo service gdm start
gdm start/running. process xxxx
does nothing visible and
Code:
Sudo gedit xxx
Cannot open display
shows nothing else.
'Ctrl-Alt-F7' gives a blank black screen with a small flashing cursor, whether gdm has been started or not; in some cases it goes direct to this.
When I select Linux11.10, 3.0.0-12 recovery, it goes into a black blank screen indefinitely; but if I enter 'Ctrl-Alt-Del', after 20 seconds or so it goes to the blank black screen with a small flashing cursor and then responds to 'Ctrl-Alt-F1/F2' similarly to the above.
3a. Text before login prompt:
"Ext4-fs (sda8) mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Begin: Running .scripts/local-bottom ... done.
Begin: Running .scripts/init-bottom ... done.
3b. Text before root prompt ( Also sometimes before login prompt):
"init: Handling starting event
init: udev state changed from starting to pre-start
init: udev state changed from pre-start to spawned"
( see note above for added text if 'exit' is entered.) Hope this is enough to identify.
4.
Code:
lspci -vnn | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G73 [GeForce 7650 GS] [10de:0390] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
5. I cannot post my /var/log/xorg.0.log file. Nor even my /var/log/Xorg.0.log file. As gedit "Cannot open display".
I assume the only way I could do would be to mount sda8 11.10 from sda6 10.04.
Sorry it is not as concise as I would hope but it never seems to produce the same results twice running. Chao! bogan.
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