11.04 upgrade from 10.10 hangs at boot

[tazzik]

Hi,

I was running 10.10 until this morning when I upgraded to 11.04.

{Some minor grub complaints in the install but mainly due to me having customised the entries.}

I rebooted and went to the new installation, it goes purple and says Ubuntu 11.04 with dots going across, then it hangs and goes to the background text and the last thing it says is "Checking Battery State ................ [OK].

I'm on a desktop, so I'm sure the battery thing isn't an issue, it's probably something before or the next command that freezes it.

I booted into recovery mode repaired grub (no change) then went into failsafe graphics mode and it worked ok.

My guess is that because failsafe graphics was ok, it might be to do with the graphics driver (ATI HD6970 fglrx driver) but I've no idea.

Can anybody help me???

[markhorrocks]

I ma in the middle of fixing this same bug. It seems to be the proprietary ATI driver. Check these

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1701730

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troublesho...from%20scratch

[WinRiddance]

Yeah, that's yet another issue that I experienced with 11.04 too. Without the proprietary driver the system worked fine, but no 3D at all. As soon as I installed the new ATI proprietary drivers I began seeing problems on the screen. The settings that I applied had to be changed after every reboot too, because they wouldn't remain saved. I have never seen a fraction of similar Nvidea problems as I have seen with ATI drivers.

My suggestion ... Live without 3D or revert back to 10.10 with a clean install.
Sure, you can work with it, but either of those two suggestions are a quick fix.
Good luck.

[Tedzdog]

OMG i have the exact same problem, just upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04, reboot but it hangs at
"Checking Battery State ................ [OK]."

My graphics card is a nVIDIA geforce not ATI. I dont know what drivers im using. I never messed arround with my graphics drivers.

Oh and im using ubuntu inside Oracle VM VirtualBox, though i hope this should not make any difference.

[multisystem]

Exactly the same problem, except that this is happening while booting from live cd.

[t2kburl]

similar problem here. I'm using kubuntu. It gets all the way to the desktop ... sound plays ... then it hangs. I think that is when fglrx settings kick in (?). Will try failsafe graphics when I get home.

[charlescva]

Same here... did an upgrade from 10.10... freezes @ checking battery... but am able to switch tty console and login...donno what to do from there... dell latitude e6500. And ubuntu rocks.

Also using nVidia

[The Altruist]

I'm having the same issue using an nVidia. I recompiled my drivers for my kernel. That works fine now. However, I still hang at the Ubuntu screen with the dots. What logs can I check in recovery mode to find out where my system is hanging?

[vks_foe]

I'm having the same issue using an nVidia. I recompiled my drivers for my kernel. That works fine now. However, I still hang at the Ubuntu screen with the dots. What logs can I check in recovery mode to find out where my system is hanging?

it seems to be a prb with graphics driver.

press ctrl+alt+f1 to get a terminal
login as root

try following commands :
"/etc/init.d/gdm restart"

or
"/etc/init.d/kdm restart"

follow what pops up...
this worked for me... no additional effects are avilable now...

[charlescva]

Unfortunately for me, service gdm restart is not working entirely.

I hold Alt + Ctrl + F1 to get to tty1.

after logging in w/ my username and password, i executed,

sudo service gdm restart

I see that it is restarting the gdm, and it gives me a spawned process ID. However nothing else happens. When i switch back to tty7 (Ctrl + Alt + F7), it is still stuck at Checking Battery State... screen...

Anything else I can try? Ive been using ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop for almost a year now and really have a lot of settings and configuration i would like to keep.

Is it possible to restore the system to a point prior to the upgrade?

Thanks,
Charles