I had Ubuntu working perfectly until I installed two Nvidia updates. (proprietary driver)Now Ubuntu freezes at the Ubuntu loading screen. Unfortunately I can't remember how to access the terminal at bootup, does anyone know?Im not sure what I will try yet but I might just try getting updates in case I will get a new Nvidia update to fix this.
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I just installed 9.10 on a separate drive in my system. The update manager told me many updates were required, so I went ahead and installed. It needed to restart, but the system just got stuck after the default GRUB entry started loading.Is there a way to undo the updates? I can't boot into 9.10 any more so I'm not sure how this would work.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI hadn't done any major updates for about a couple weeks, and then I downloaded a whole bunch - 100+ mb worth. One of these updates was the new kernel 2.6.32-23 (I'm now on the 2.6.32-24 kernel with no improvement). After doing these updates my computer froze at the point where the 5 white dots (10.04) became red upon booting. Since then it generally crashes about every 2nd boot. Also, the times when it does boot, it takes a bit longer to boot (maybe 5-10 secs).
It's no longer snappy like the 10.04 it was just prior to doing the updates.Today it seemed to freeze during login with the prompt still showing once I'd put in my details. When I say it freezes, nothing is happening but I can still do CTRL+ALT+DELETE to reboot the computer, so it's not a full freeze. I've been asked does the old kernel crash it and having tried it once or twice I think it still crashed once. So perhaps it's not the kernel.
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I have a Ubuntu 10.04 fresh installation on my HP laptop. Installation successful and boot OK. But the desktop randomly freeze. During freeze(about 15s each time), all programs are not responsive. Sometimes I can switch program by click, but program seems locked. How can I know which module cause the freeze?
View 4 Replies View RelatedFor some reason Update Manager is not installing updates as of yesterday.I have it set to check daily and notify if updates are available. It has been working without issues for well over a year now.
Update Manager tells me updates are available and presents the list of security, recommended, and other updates. All are selected to update, but when I select Install Updates in Update Manager it returns with a Reading Package Information window overlaid on the main Update Manager window - building dependency tree then reading state information and dumps me back to the main Update Manager window without performing any update actions.
I just learned that warsow 0.6 is out, and went to see if it was available in the ubuntu software center yet, as opposed to going and downloading and installing it manually from the warsow website. The ubuntu repo's still have version 0.5, and at the bottom of the page it says:
"Updates: Canonical does not provide updates for Warsow. Some updates may be provided by the Ubuntu community."
So if I wanted to 'update' this item in the repo's for the better of the community what would that entail?
There are some updates in the Update Manager list which I do not install. Among them, some drivers for HP Printers (I don't know why this cropped up; I don't even use printers on my laptop), and gcj updates (I use gcc/g++ but not gcj). I unchecked them the first time I saw them on my UM list. However, for every subsequent batch of new updates, UM retains these updates and I need to uncheck them every time. How can I remove them totally from my UM list?
View 2 Replies View Relatedupdates manager constantly crash i tried gnome in safe mode and it doesn't work so i need some way to update the os untill hopefully one update would fix the update.
View 5 Replies View RelatedSo, it is my understanding that Ubuntu's automatic updates do not install ANY updates that are not "important security updates." For example, it did not upgrade me to Firefox 4 automatically; I had to do it myself (Don't all new browser versions usually contain new security features/patches? Oh well...That is a separate question entirely).
ANYWAY, is there some way to get the latest stable versions of all of my open-source software automatically (or at least all at once, on command), instead of just security updates? It seems silly to have to install new versions for every program manually.
Also, related/side question: Now that I have installed Firefox 4 myself (via apt-get by adding the mozilla-stable PPA), will I stop getting security updates for Firefox through the standard Ubuntu update manager?
Actually, a really thorough explanation of the whole automatic update system (or a link to one) would be great too.
How do i download and install updates? It says package not found.
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe little red popup window (packagekit) from the lower right showed yum updates
I did a yum update and no updates!
I tried again this morning and no updates
I'm running CentOS 5.4 and noticed that for the past month there haven't been any new updates showing up either on 'yum check-update' or 'yum update' (I'm interested in basic and security updates). Although this may be right, I wonder if there is an online reference where I can check the updates that are released for CentOS (security bulletins) and make sure if there is anything wrong with my update system.
View 11 Replies View RelatedI have ubuntu 10.04 , It was working fine the first time from USB . I tried to install ubuntu on my harddrive that had vista on it. But it gave me some error. And when I try to open it from hard drive its just blank screen.
And booting from USB doesnt work it comes on loading screen and doesnt do anything.
This is what error I get when I press [esc] button
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Stdin error 0
/initial: line 7: can't open /dev/sr0: no medium foun
unable to open '/dev/sda'
Up until recently have always been a gnome or xfce user, recently decided to try kubuntu. I like it, but its very slow to boot. I get a blank blue screen (same shade as grub) right after grub has finished its countdown and starts Kubuntu.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat is the signifigance of this error?
[ 8.427117 render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010 ]
[ 8.427124 ] [drm: i915_handle_error] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
[ 8.427133] render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
I get this error on bootup it seems to have no effect, but I am curious as to what it's implications are. using karmic server
I downloaded the x86 10.04 LTS ISO and burned to a disc. I booted it on my old Fujitsu laptop but it just hangs at:
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Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ...
Done.
init: ureadahead-other main process (1019) terminated with status 4
init: ureadahead-other main process (1020) terminated with status 4
* Setting sensors limits [ OK ]
I tried all the possibilities like noacpi but to no avail.
In the past (before UpStart was used in Ubuntu) I was able to configure multiple boot items in Grub menu to load the same kernel but into different runlevels. I had configured runlevel 3 (I went into /etc/rc3.d/ and removed the symlink to /etc/init.d/gdm) to be w/o GDM, so that if I had chosen it, my box would not boot into X. How can I achieve the same effect in Lucid?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis is my sons Asus eee pc 1005peb ( have one exactly like it and never happened to me)
The screen flashes on bootup and makes it very hard if not impossible to login and the gnome menu at the top is gone too. I do not know what he did to it. But I am loading meego on it now.
I seem to have the following problem with Ubuntu. I have two PATA drives in my server. The OS is loaded on the first drive which is the master and the server functions fine. This is what I want to do is to have two 120 gig drives in the system and mirror them. When I put the second drive in set to be a slave the bios see's both drives. After the bios shows what is in the system it hangs with the cursor in the upper left hand corner and will not boot beyond that point. If I unplug that second drive it will boot up with no issues.
View 1 Replies View RelatedNot sure if i am correct but I was under the impression from all sorts of posts & videos that 10.04 was supposed to have a fast bootup. I have upgraded from 9.04 jaunty bootup is quite a bit slower than on the old version and is quite tedious is this correct? are there any logs i can upload to see if i have an error some where?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am frustrated that I do not see the kernels menu anymore, which had such useful tools like the different kernels, the ram checker or the recovery mode kernel, allowing recovery from a botched update, etc. As of 10.10, I don't even get the kernel messages flashing by, all I get is a dumbed-down black screen a l windows, then it boots ubuntu without offering me any of these options.
How do I get to it, and how do I get it back?
Have installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a couple of Dell Inspiron 2650 laptops (both 512M memory) and when they run, they're great, but they only successfully boot up maybe 10% of the attempts. Most of the time, the touchpad and keyboard are inoperative, but I recall sometimes the enter key gets me past my user Id to input password. Trying to enter recovery mode isn't any better, but once into recovery, I'll boot up in safe graphics, but it is probably only running because it succeeded in entering recovery, anyways. I have elected to to boot up in safe graphics, but they still both freeze. No error messages, just a frozen background/icons screen.
Ubuntu has searched the hardware and reports there's nothing requiring proprietary drivers installed.
After reading all the other problems posted, I figure my laptops are doing pretty darn good, but it sure would be nice not to set around starting up and shutting down, over and over.
I installed SLIM and rebooted. gdm failed to start so I went to the terminal and ran gdm manually from there. Then i logged in and removed slim package, reinstalled gdm and rebooted. Gdm still fails to start at boot up. When i try to manually start it, i get the following warnings:
Warning: unable to load file 'etc/gdm/custom.conf'
Warning: unable to find users: no seat-id found
When it DOES boot, it runs like a champ, and has no issues. However, it tends to freeze up on the boot at the BIOS screen, this issue was around when Windows was on it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have managed to install Ubuntu 9.10 on my pc I have Vista installed on one hard drive and ubuntu on another. When I boot up on Ubuntu, the desktop comes up, then after about 30 seconds the pc freezes.
View 2 Replies View RelatedREASON: I want to find out how to improve my boot-up and hibernate-awake time for ubuntu (it is 300% slower as hibernate on windows xp on the same machine)
QUESTION: well my question is concerning the tool dmesg. As I understood from reading the quite brief >>man dmesg this tool will show the messages the kernel put out during the boot-up. true? A typical line on my dmesg output I receive would look like this:
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[ 39.632219] i915 0000:00:02.0: LVDS-1: EDID invalid.
[ 46.964733] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:23:08:20:58:6f
[ 46.965988] wlan0: authenticated
subquestion:
a) the number in the beginning (is it the time between the two kernel messages?) in the example it wold be about 7 seconds
b) if it is the time in seconds: does it mean the kernel was abusing 7 dseconds for the output of the line? how can I track what causes the delays?
PS: maybe I should post this in a different ubuntuforums subgroup (if so which?) PSS: is there any good webpage (I have not found any yet) on this topic?
When I boot up 9.10, very occasionally, I get a login screen directly after the page with the Ubuntu b&w symbol and before the colour page. It doesn't happen very often but usually when I am showing someone how good and quick Ubuntu is.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI know this has technically been posted but I think my situation is a bit different. People have been complaining that karmic is slower to boot. But from what I gather, it's only a few seconds extra due to an extra splash screen. I'm running Ubuntu Studio and mine takes like 5 minutes and is showing me 3 splash screens! 2 for regular Ubuntu and 1 for studio, which is the most sluggish of the three.
My computer is a Toshiba Satellite A75
2.8 ghz pentium M
1.5 gb ram
Radeon graphics
60gb hdd
EDIT: Also, recovering from hibernate takes a few min. Related?
I have a box which was upgraded to 10.04 server. I also installed the ubuntu-desktop package and it's configured to autologon a user and then vino shares the user's desktop to the network. I do it this way because the server has no monitor/keyboard/mouse attached.
The problem I had, is that "if" one of the filesystems fails to mount at bootup. The machine sits there waiting for keyboard input on what it should do.
Quote:
"File system xyz failed to mount, the device is not available or not ready.
Continue to wait;S to Skip;M for Manual Recovery"
Is there a way to influence the default behavior in the event of a failed mounting operation? (so there's no need for a keyboard to be attached.)
