12.10 is broken and cant boot

**darkod** · October 24th, 2012

Well if live mode doesn't work I would understand that as a problem. Maybe it's not video related, but there is something.

You should always try live mode before upgrading, it can point out issues.

I don't know 100% how chroot works but you should be able to ping I guess. Maybe the network settings are messed up (of your hdd installation, inside the chroot), that's why you can't ping and subsequently it can't find the repositories.

Try booting the 12.10 in live mode without the 'quiet splash' so that you can see the text scrolling. It can point out where it gets stuck. You can use that info to google around later.

**DustofDust** · October 24th, 2012

because of an dns issue i cant update the packages

Code:

ping archive.ubuntu.com
ping: unknown host archive.ubuntu.com

with the ip it works

Code:

ping -c 1 91.189.92.202
PING 91.189.92.202 (91.189.92.202) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 91.189.92.202: icmp_req=1 ttl=56 time=32.7 ms

--- 91.189.92.202 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 32.702/32.702/32.702/0.000 ms

with the browser i can access archive.ubuntu.com

in the chrroted area the link to /etc/resolv.conf is broken... in the non chrooted area the file is there... the reason i can browse but i dont get dns in the chrooted area

**DustofDust** · October 27th, 2012

any ideas?

**DustofDust** · January 3rd, 2013

new year... new luck?

any updates or upgrades which could solve my problem?

**darkod** · January 3rd, 2013

Have you tried booting into recovery mode? In the grub2 menu select the recovery mode entry, not the standard normal mode.

In the menu that opens, select Network to activate internet, and then select Drop to root shell which should drop you to a command prompt as root (in this case you don't need to run sudo in front of commands because you are as root).

In the command prompt you can try running commands.

**theos911** · January 3rd, 2013

Can you please post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

You appear to be having the same issue as reported here.

I use ppc Debian Squeeze and have also been unable to enable EXA acceleration on my mach64 Rage Pro LT. I can specify

Code:

Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"

in the device section of my xorg.conf and it no longer segfaults, but this is not an optimal solution.

**DustofDust** · March 23rd, 2013

yes i tried the recovery mode already at the beginning when i wanted to reinstall all the driver, x and so on but all didnt work...

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/dri...-video-mach64/

so i will make a backup of all my data and install another distro