Hardware :: Computer Not Boot Reliably (Ubuntu And XP Installed)
Feb 18, 2011
I'm having trouble getting this computer to boot up a lot of the time. It's an older AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+. Motherboard is (apparently, I'm just copying from the Sysinfo app) AMD K8 Athlon64 Opteron. I have Ubuntu Jaunty and Windows XP installed, but I don't know how relevant that is. When booting, it will simply stop around the stage where it detects the HDD and DVD drive, or right after. The last thing I see is the line with the DVD drive being found. I can't get into the BIOS, it does not make it that far before freezing.
If I keep rebooting, sometimes it will boot normally allowing me to access BIOS settings or make it to GRUB and start up the OS. If I do manage to boot the computer successfully, it is extremely stable. I often go months without a reboot. The problem is it's nice to be able to reboot once in a while without fear of the computer crossing over into the land of the dead. I can't figure out what's wrong, but the problem seems to be very early in the booting stage.
I would like to create a custom boot disk that would include some programs already installed on my computer, so I wouldn't have to re download them, is there a way to do this?
I have recently installed Fedora 15 KDE (with Dual Boot Win7) on my computer:Dell Optiplex 330, Intel Core2Duo- 2.53 GHz, 32 Bit, 2GB RamnVIDIA 8400 GSWhile going through the Guides mentioned here: for F15, I tried to install nVIDIA Drivers after updating the Kernel.suyum update kernel*rebootHowever it gave me some errors and then I did try the following method (as described in Missingbox studio guide)su -yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs.i686 bootconf-gui kernel*develfollowed by Reboot.
I start my computer, I get the screen which shows that Fedora will boot in 3 seconds. This is followed by a black screen with a "Blue followed by white" Bar running towards right (where Fedora 15 is written)....It stays there for ever (I waited for 3 hours and then switched off my computer).Presently I am writing this post through Windows7.Is there any way I can repair Fedora through Win7 or by any other means.---------- Post added at 10:57 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:51 AM ----------I remember the instructions (given by leigh123linux) that we should provide the following information rpm -qa *vidia* *kernel*|sort;uname -r;lsmod |grep -e nvidia -e nouveau;cat /etc/X11/xorg.confI had it saved as a .txt file in my home folder.
I can't get HDMI sound reliably when using Ubuntu. The strange thing is, if I repeatedly reboot the computer, eventually the sound will work. This can take anything up to 10 reboots. Once working, it will keep on working as long as the machine is not rebooted or shut down. HDMI sound works fine under Windows.
aplay -l will only list the Intel (analogue and S/PDIF) hardware, not the Nvidia, even when it is working. Selecting between analogue and digital output under Sound Preferences has no effect on the HDMI either way.
I've been having problems connecting to my MSN (Hotmail) account with Empathy. Empathy is in my start-up applications, but every time I start my PC MSN is disconnected. I have to run "killall telepathy-butterfly" then disable and re-enable the MSN account in Empathy to get it working again.I read today in another forum post that you can remove telepathy-butterfly. So I've tried that. Now I can't get it to connect to my MSN account at all.
I've tried using the "HTTP method" and not, restarting Empathy, recreating the account, but whenever it connects it immediately disconnects and now says "Disconnected - Connection has been replaced by a new connection using the same resource"I only have one MSN account in Empathy, although I also use it for Google Talk, Facebook, Yahoo!, and People Nearby.Any ideas how I can get MSN reliably working every time without interference?
I have a DSL internet connection. The DSL is just a cable that comes into my house, no routers under my control. For a long time the internet functioned fine in Ubuntu using the default Network Manager. Recently however, my ISP was bought by another ISP, and the service name had to be changed in the DSL settings. In Windows, it connects without any issue whatsoever, only the service name change was required... But in Ubuntu, the first time I connect I get a "Apache: Not Found" page, the next time, I get to the previous ISP's login page, it continues like this for some time until I get it working. I have to try connecting it again and again.
When I asked the customer service, they said that because of the takeover, they have switched servers. But they said, it should work properly in Windows, and they were clueless about Ubuntu. Is there anything I can do to solve this issue?
I had a cd laying around with ubuntu on it, and I wanted to play around with it some more. So I installed Ubuntu, and couldn't believe how slow it was! you've guessed it: I've installed x86 on a x64 computer. Now i want to go from x86 to x64, what steps to take?
I decided to try kubuntu after reading over the webs. I got lastest 10.04 release of kubuntu installed (downloaded yesterday).
So far i dont seem to get any mediaplayer to work correctly with video files (avi's and Video_ts.ifo's). I've tried:
- built in Dragon - Vlc - mplayer and kmplayer/smplayer - xine
The result is as follows
- Dragon plays only Dvd's "vob" files but cannot switch audio or subtitles - vlc wont open ANYTHING at all - mplayer crashes on anything as well - xine will play some videos as dragon but wont play vob files (no "muxer")
At first i installed recommended stuff to play mp3's. When i tried to watch films or dvd's i couldnt do it with Dragon so i tried to install so advertised VLC. I did, and when i open ANY file in VLC, it closes itself. Just closes. Or on rare occasions (when opening some of dvd's files) it just opens a big black screen and reverts to starting small state w/o screen or file opened. I can even sometimes see the first picture from the video blink before it closes. I couldnt get ANY file to play on VLC not even an mp3... I then installed some packages that told they contain codecs to play alot of formats, and package for "encoded dvd's" - nothing.
After that i've seen that now i can play some videos (avi's and stuff) and even DVD's with built in Dragon video player, but dragon cannot understand subtitles or different audio streams. I tried mplayer and Xine with no luck as well.
Now since its not a problem of one player, but i cannot get to play video_ts.ifo files at all and cannot get vlc and mplayer to play anything at all, there must be something i am doing wrong.
I recently installed Lubuntu 11.04 on my aunt's old computer (Sony PCV-LX800); I had it running Ubuntu for a few years but the latest releases are too much for it to bear. Anyway, a while back I installed a DVD-ROM drive in her computer in order to play DVD movies. It plays CDs and non-commercial DVDs fine, but with the commercial DVDs, it doesn't work 80% of the time. The 20% it does work, everything is fine.
I've installed all the necessary packages with every new release. Currently using the following: libdvdcss, libdvdnav4, and libdvdread4 (via the Medibuntu repository).Here's some info from this system while trying to play the DVD LotR: Return of the King Extended Edition:
Code: gloria@gloria-PCV-LX800-U:~$ mplayer dvd://1 MPlayer 1.0rc4-4.5.2 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team
I was wondering if it's possible to rip the Ubuntu OS from a computer with it already installed? Since I downloaded Ubuntu many moons ago, I've lost the disc and my internet only allocates a certain amount of gig to be downloaded before being slowed. Which has already happened this month, so it'd take me 3-4 days to download Ubuntu again. And I need it today, if possible. So I would like to try and get the OS from the computer with Ubuntu already installed, so I can install Ubuntu on the other 2 laptops in the house.
I'm trying to install Ubuntu on old desktops without proper optical drives (they half work, its hit and miss) and the BIOS does not allow booting from the USB. Can I yank the HDD out, install Ubuntu (with bootloader) on it using it as an external drive on another computer and then plug it back in?
I have a Toshiba satellite l505d-gs6000, it had a duel boot Linux mint and windows(although i have not used windows for over a year on my computer).
It had 4 partitions i shrunk my main windows partition again and made more space, i reformatted /dev/sda3 (windows restore) to ext4 and installed openSUSE, i used the same swap partition. openSUSE removed GNU GRUB and now i can only boot into windows and openSUSE, the partition that mint is installed on is still there (/dev/sda6) but i cannot boot into it. also wireless networking does not work on openSUSE.
How do I put the FQDN in the etc/hosts file, server ip is 192.168.2.101 hostname - promisedland fqdn - promisedland.dyndns.org I just want to set up a web based file server. Here is what i put in hosts (/etc)-gedit
Ok this is a problem that has dogged me for years but I was hoping it was fixed in 11.4. Using the acroreader plugin pdfs sometimes work but most often they result in a white or black blank screen and once one pdf has failed then they all fail until I restart firefox. It is a huge pain - under kubuntu I have used mozplugger to display pdfs with okular in the browser but this doesn't seem to be in the repos.
I don't think it is just me, all the people I know using suse seem to have this problem but it never gets fixed. how to get pdfs reliably displayed in firefox?
Can FUSE filesystems be layered/nested? (I would use the verb "stacked", but that might confuse the issue with kernel module file system stacking in the same process space).I've scoured the web an haven't been able to find an answer to this question. I've also tested emperically for the answer, with inconclusive results. I have numerous use cases in mind for this. E.g.:Mp3 tagging FS on top of ZFS-FUSE. Union FS on top of NTFS-3G. Caching FS on top of checksumming FS on top of compression FS on top of encryption FS on top of webdav FS. And so on. (Yes I realize the last one would be a stretch in any scenario.) Or basically, ANY special-purpose FS on top of ZFS-FUSE, or NTFS-3G. (My particular interest is the former.)
I have tested this out - specifically, encfs on top of ZFS-FUSE. It didn't work. I don't recall the exact problems nor did I document the results, but the result was a very unhappy filesystem. (It did actually all mount without error if I remember correctly.) I tried many workarounds, and the end result was a non-functioning file system (I know that's vague; as is my memory). So that got me thinking, is it even possible? Is FUSE even designed for this? And if it is, is it designed in such a way that layered filesystems are reliably abstracted from each other so that they don't care and can't know what the underlying FS is? I do realize there would be performance penalties with these use cases, many non-exact alternatives, etc. So it would be nice to not receive use-case/alternatives lectures that (some) in the Linux community feel compelled to provide
To replace my aging hard-disk, I bought a new, bigger disk to hold two NTFS partitions (system + data) to run XPSP3.
Unless I missed it, PartClone in Clonezilla doesn't resize a partition to use the extra space. So I now need to resize the second partition.
Since NTFS is a proprietary filesystem, before I go ahead and use Gparted or some alternative, can experienced users confirm that resizing NTFS partitions using Linux tools is rock-solid, or I better use a closed-source, Windows-based solution instead?
This has probably been answered elsewhere, but I could not see it - how can I check which version of Ubunbtu I have installed and whether it is 32 or 64 bit?
getting this message when trying to install XP."Setup did not find any HD installed in your computer." I have Ubuntu installed on another partition so it makes no sense that XP doesn't recognize my HD.
I've been playing around with the cube in CCSM and I've seen some videos on ..... that have windows XP on one side of the cube and on the other three sides, it still has Ubuntu. I was wondering how i would do that? If it makes a difference, I wanted to do that with Vista instead of XP.
basically, I had Ubuntu installed and decided to reinstall windows on the same pc on a partition on the same hdd. Now i need to restore grub to be able to boot Ubuntu.
I've done this a million times, what ive done is that ive inserted my old ubuntu 8.10 disc and followed this guide: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=224351 but now that wont work since 8.10 doesnt read ext4 which I upgraded to a while ago. (at least I think thats why it wont work in 8.10)
I downloaded the newest ubuntu to the same thing from that disc but when I type "sudo grub" it simply tells me that grub is not installed despite the fact that it is (and ubuntu 8.10 seemed to recognize that it was, it would just stop when i typed "find /boot/grub/stage1".
my wife's desktop has been freezing almost daily, leading to a reboot. It's an HP Pavilion (specs here) and it has Ubuntu 11.04 installed since soon after 11.04 came out. There doesn't seem to be really any rhyme or reason to the crashes, except that it might happen more often when she's web browsing with Firefox. I tried looking at /var/log/syslog, but to be honest I wasn't really sure what I was looking for. I did notice that syslog would stop recording at the same time the mouse and keyword freeze. Has any one seen this problem or be able to give me some advice on how to find out what's going on?
[root@ncc1701 ~]# hostname ncc1701 [root@ncc1701 ~]# service httpd restart Stopping httpd: [ OK ] Starting httpd: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 63.123.155.104 for ServerName [ OK ]
problem is that I have no idea where it is getting the 63.123.155.104 address from. Its not mine and its not the IP of the server..
I recently installed openSUSE 11.2 on a computer in place of Ubuntu 9.10. In Ubuntu, Totem will play a midi file. How do I make that happen in openSUSE? I don't know which package I need to install to make that happen.
I am facing an error:"Starting httpd: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using TestServer.localdomain.com for ServerName"When I am restarting the httpd service.Can anyone please tell me what is this error about & how to fix it.bare with me as I am a newbie, so kindly requesting for the easy explanation.steps to set the Domain name.
I've purchased a couple of books so that I can begin to learn JAVA. Finding recent editions is very challenging, so the books I found cover JAVA 5.0. I plan to go through all of the exercises in both books. Which version of Java should I have installed on my computer?
Should I install 5.0 so that the examples from the book will work perfectly? Will I run into confusing situations or problems if I try the example exercises using Java 6?
I have two computers that have a direct ethernet wire between them. The interface is set to a static ip address on each side, and under control of the NetworkManager.
About 1/10 the time the interface does not start. The messages log file will show:
Jun 22 13:01:22 owl10 NetworkManager[601]: <info> (p6p1): carrier is OFF Jun 22 13:01:22 owl10 NetworkManager[601]: <info> (p6p1): new Ethernet device (driver: 'r8169' ifindex: 2) Jun 22 13:01:22 owl10 NetworkManager[601]: <info> (p6p1): exported as /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
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So, I imagine there is a race condition where both boxes wait for the other to start the interface.
My question: Is there anyway to force NetworkManager to bring up an interface even if there is no Carrier?
BTW, this problem started recently on Fedora 13 after some upgrades. We upgraded to the latest Fedora 15 to try and solve it, and it now appears more often than it did on Fedora 13.
I'm not sure what Nvidia driver I installed the other day, but it's messed things up. After Ubuntu boots up and asks for login, I am greeted with terminal. Setting 1152Xwhatever resolution failed. Setting to 1024X768. My xorg.conf.old file is completely empty, so I have no idea what the original settings were. I have tried removing and reinstalling xserver.xorg but that hasn't seemed to get me anywhere. I have also used the "apt-cache search nvidia" command to see what drivers could be installed, but every single driver that I attempt to remove isn't installed.
I've installed Fedora 12 64bit, but the computer crashes while booting, basically after the irqbalance or rpcbind steps.
Here are photos of the error messages:
Here are my hardware specs: MB: Biostar TF560 A2+ CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ RAM: DDR2 800 Dual 128 bit, 2T (4GB) GPU: ATI Radeon HD 3870
The sound and network cards are integrated but I've tried disabling them from BIOS and the problem persists.
Note that I've tried Ubuntu (32bit and 64bit) and it also crashes about 30 seconds after loading the graphical interface (either installer or login screen). Fedora's graphical installer worked flawlessly, tho. I've also tried SLAX (using it right now) and it works without any problems.
