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    Start up issue with ubuntu 8.1

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by me12345, Dec 4, 2008.

  1. me12345

    me12345 Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi,

    When I try to boot ubuntu I get the a screen that says

    booting ubuntu 8.10, kernal 2.6.27-9 generic

    Filesystem typ eis ntfs, partition type 0x7

    Loading please wait...

    Ubuntu 8.10-laptop tty1

    my name-laptop login

    And then when I login to my account, all I get is a screen telling me information about my system, such as proecsses, temp, memory usage etc.

    I was able to log into 8.04, but when I upgraded to 8.10 this is what happened.

    Thanks for your help
     
    me12345, Dec 4, 2008
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  2. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    can you hit ctrl+c to break out into the shell?
     
    ALLurGroceries, Dec 4, 2008
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  3. me12345

    me12345 Notebook Evangelist

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    Thank you very much for your reply, but ctr-c did not do anything.

    Edited to add: further searching prompted me to check results from a sudo startx and then I get a fatal server error: no screen found (errno 111) unable to connect to X server.
     
    me12345, Dec 4, 2008
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  4. Thomas

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    Hmm.....it seems you have a problem with XORG.
    OK can you get to a terminal prompt?
    If so, run this
    Code: 
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
     
    Thomas, Dec 4, 2008
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  5. ALLurGroceries

    ALLurGroceries  Vegan Vermin Super Moderator

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    Hmmmm... hard to say without your full output from X... look for error lines beginning with (EE) ... it could be your xorg.conf config, it could be the modules for your graphics needing to be installed...
     
    ALLurGroceries, Dec 4, 2008
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  6. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Just a note, it's Ubuntu 8.10, not 8.1. It's the October (10) release in 2008 (8).

    8.10 introduced a new automatic X configuration system, so you shouldn't need any tweaks to xorg.conf of anything. What kind of laptop do you have, what hardware is in it?
     
    Pitabred, Dec 5, 2008
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