Ubuntu :: GDM Does Not Start At Boot
Oct 15, 2010
So for the last few days gdm ans not started on boot up. tty7 is a blank screen and I'm automatically put in tty1. There I can log in and run gdm manually.
It has a started automatically a few times with out me doing any changes, but most of the times not. So far I haven't found out what the cause is but I've found some similar (the same?) problems:
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I'm running 10.04 64-bit if it matters.
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Jan 28, 2011
I've installed Ubuntu on my new desktop alongside Windows 7 (each OS is on a separate drive), I seem to have run into a small problem. Let me start with what I did:
- Unplugged 1TB drive from the PSU, BIOS was not seeing my formatted (and thus empty) 500GB drive and I couldn't put it into the boot order at all with the 1TB turned on.
- Loaded up the boot CD and was able to install Ubuntu 10.1 on my 500GB drive.
- Did a bit of configuring, shut my PC off and plugged my 1TB (with Windows 7) drive back in. I tried to see if I could now see my Ubuntu drive in BIOS but nothing is there - just the Windows drive is in the list of available drives to boot from (along with DVD-ROM and USB).
This is where I've run into my problem. What I want is to have a nice GRUB boot menu at the start like any other dual-boot system but just have the two operating systems on separate drives altogether.I did it this way because I was having issues with the advanced partition menu on the boot CD so just went ahead and followed the KISS method by unplugging the Windows drive.
I was told by a friend that if I put my Ubuntu drive into the first position in my boot order and the Windows drive in the second, then I could boot into Ubuntu and run a GRUB update command (he told me to google it) and that would create the necessary GRUB that had the entries for Windows 7 and Ubuntu.Both operating systems are 64-bit, I imagine that might make a difference in whatever help you guys can offer me. I love the hell out of both OS's and want to be able to use them interchangeably.
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Jul 18, 2011
I have installed "open-SUSE 11.4" on a "500GB Free Agent External Hard Drive". I didn't have any problem in booting since last week that I booted it from my laptop. Also I did it before several times from then when I try to boot it e.g. from an "Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q9400 @ 2.66GHz" PC the time between loading INITRD and starting boot sequence messages lasts nearly 30 minutes!(i didn't actually measure it but it take a long time in the same order). after starting boot sequence which is showed on monitor everything looks normal. e.g copy of files would be done by speeds between 2MB/s to 30 MB/s depending on the targets.I used to use the external hard derive to boot from different laptops and PC's from start but I didn't have such a problem anytime.
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Jun 2, 2010
Running ubuntu 9.04 and have mpd installed and running good. I just cant seem to get it to start at boot. I want it to run on a headless system so don't want to have to login to start it. I have successfully done this on another system but I cannot remember how I did it and cant seem to find.
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Jan 21, 2010
does anyone know how I can get my screenlets to boot on start-up? Couldn't find out how through google and I can't find an option on the screenlet or the screenlet manager that sets them to automatically start on start up.
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May 19, 2010
After upgrade to 10.04 squid does not start automatically after boot.
Starting it manually via: sudo start squid works fine.
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May 19, 2010
My monitor only supports 640x480 resolution, so how can I start Ubuntu's live CD at this resolution?
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Sep 3, 2010
I have a VPS with Ubuntu 10.04 and acces to it via putty. Besides postgres database there should be running two java program which I wrote. It works fine from command line. But I need them to start automatically at boot time.
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Dec 20, 2010
I installed Ubuntu on my netbook alonside xp. The only problem is that when I start my computer, the boot menu only pops up for a split second and I cannot select "run windows xp". This is preventing me from usintg both OS'.
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Jan 9, 2011
My machine is running in Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.7Ghz, Nvidia legacy Riva tnt/tnt2 and a 512mb ram. I have a Network adapter, Realtek RTL8139 Family PCI Fast Ethernet NIC. I have installed Ubuntu in my Window Xp, and used the ACPI workaround to install ubuntu on my PC. Now that I have installed Ubuntu, when I try to boot ubuntu, it always hang before it start to boot.
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Jan 24, 2011
A friend of mine installed ubuntu 10.10 alongside with Windows XP. During the installation he manually edited partitions. Now, the grub loader does not start, and in order to start ubuntu he has to use live cd to choose "boot from first hard drive" in the menu. Windows XP is missing from the boot options.
See the output of "fdisk -l" below (he has two identical hard drives). It looks like a big mess. Any idea where to start fixing this?
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x05c605c5
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May 28, 2011
i installed Ubuntu on another partition from windows 7. but before doing that i remember formating 100MB partition i think was called Boot "something" thinking that i created this partition from my previous failures for installing Ubuntu, now every time i restart the computer; i doesn't ask me about what to start! it starts Ubuntu immediately! "i even remember before installing Ubuntu; i couldn't start windows!"
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Mar 10, 2010
Host - ubuntu 9.10 64bit
Virtualizer - KVM
I need to stop KVM starting at boot. I added following 2 lines at the bottom of /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
Code: blacklist kvm
blacklist kvm-amd Reboot PC
It doesn't work.
$ lsmod | grep kvm Code: kvm_amd 41556 0
kvm 190648 1 kvm_amd
What further command I have to run in order to activate the new blacklist.conf ?
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Jul 28, 2009
I am trying to get mysql to start at boot without any success.
The mysqld scripts works fine when run from the command line, but it does not work when i use the links created by chkconfig. I checked the boot.log and found that mysql starts but then it stops or gets shutdown. This is the log message:
Starting mysqld daemon with databases from /data/mysql [ OK ]
Starting cups: [ OK ]
STOPPING server from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
starting DenyHosts: /usr/bin/denyhosts.py --daemon --config=/usr/share/denyho
sts/denyhosts.cfg
090727 04:35:47 mysqld ended
The same init script works fine in Ubuntu.
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Jan 17, 2010
I am trying to get a python script to start when the pc is booted. I'm running ubuntu server without a GUI... just CLI.
I have a python script called /home/username/bin/dropbox.py that runs perfectly if I do:
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sudo python /home/username/bin/dropbox.py start
All I want to do is invoke the command I wrote up there when the pc boots up without any user logging in.
I added the above command just like that in rc.local but that didn't work. I tried creating a bash file, where in the bash file I did:
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#!/bin/bash
cd /home/username/bin/
./dropbox.py start
and then added the bash file to rc.local, but that didn't work (I made sure the bash file was executable).
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Jan 29, 2010
I'm having some strange problems in my system (Ubuntu 9.10 32 bits). Several services (Cups, MySQL, VirtualBox kernel driver, etc) aren't starting during boot time. It's possible start them manually (e.g. /etc/init.d/cups start). The other problem is that my virtual terminals (ctrl + alt + f[1-6]) aren't starting with the system too
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Feb 17, 2010
I've been running Ubuntu 9.10 since November '09, and since a month or so I'm having boot problems. Gnome starts, but some core services such as ssh and dnsmasq (that have started on boot somewhere in time), don't start anymore. Neither does rc.local fire, so I basically have to startup these things by hand.
Also, I cannot get into the console anymore by using ctrl+alt+f*, because it gives a message like: Starting ntpd or starting libgcrypt 1.4.4, or something in that fashion.
My belief is that something is holding the boot procedure in a waiting state before services such as ssh get to start, but I can't seem to find anything in the log files.
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Mar 4, 2010
When I go to 'Places' on my panel, my windows drives are listed. I can click on one, it then asks me for password, then it puts a hard drive icon on my desktop. This is excellent.They are listed as '200 GB Filesystem' etc.My only problem, is how to make these icons stay after I shut down. I don't want to do this every time I boot up.
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Mar 22, 2010
My problem is that the samba daemon does not start on boot-up anymore on my file-sharing server.Samba starts flawlessly if start it manually.If I run:
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/etc/init.d/samba status
I get :
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May 3, 2010
I've recently made clean install to Lucid, and now Boot splash doesn't appear at start up. Only black screen appears and after that login window comes. However, boot-splash appears at shut-down and also in LiveCD.
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May 11, 2010
Ubuntu server 10.04 comes with a new event based startup system, and I wonder if that can be responsible for this problem. The server has been upgraded from 9.10. On reboot mysql does not always manage to start... /var/log/mysql/error.log has info similar to this:
100511 19:05:00 [ERROR] Can't start server: Bind on TCP/IP port: Cannot assign requested address
100511 19:05:00 [ERROR] Do you already have another mysqld server running on port: 3306 ?
100511 19:05:00 [ERROR] Aborting
So apparently port 3306 is not 100% unused when mysql tries to open it or somehow network connections are not ready, even if mysql start is supposed to wait for 'net-device-up' and 'local-filesystems' according to /etc/init/mysql.conf. This does not happen on all reboots. I am supposed to be able to start it manually with command 'start mysql' but that does not seem to work also. When I try start it again, it says mysql is running but no databases can be reached and mysqld is not active, reboot and good luck is all that helps...
As far as I know there are no firewalls installed, at least none I have manually configured and it has worked with no problems on 9.10. So this new upstart thing seems responsible. It simply does not let mysql wait until it can start in good way. That also explains why it's a random problem. If all starts happen when and if there is free processor time, it does not always start things in the same order on every reboot. The key here is port 3306, or whatever port mysql is configured to use. The upstart system simply needs delay the start until the port is 100% free and available for the system to use.
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Recently, few days or maybe a week ago I updated mysql and now mysql service do not start at boot. I must start it manualy, before this update it start automaticly.
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I've tried searching through documentation and google but most of it applies to older versions of Ubuntu.
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I have recently set up my web server using the LAMPP package for Ubuntu. Now I'm running Ubuntu Server 10 so my machine boots into the console and not gdm. Also I have my machine autologin as root so I can simply turn my server on and not mess around with logins. Now I created a simple shellscript for starting lampp and then I put it into etc/init.d/, chmod -x file.sh to give it executable permissions, then I update-rc.d file.sh defaults but nothing happens on startup. It simple takes me to the console and nothing more happens. I have to manually start lampp on every bootup.
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Nov 4, 2010
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