10.10 crashed while installing. Error writing boot loader. I used to have 8.4 on another PC and decided to install 10.10 on this one but the install failed. The error message said a log was at /var/log/syslog and /var /log/partman: but if it didn't install, how/where can I access this log or get 10.10 to install?
View 2 RepliesI have 2 hard disks installed in my system, 160 GB and 500 GB. I have using windows 7 installed on the 160 GB disk for past 2 years now and never faced any problem with my HDDs. Now this 500 GB is some problematic one. Remember the 500 gb disks from seagate which was a huge failure, i have that model. I bought it with 3 more of my friends. All other's HDD's crashed again and again except mine. I did some scanning and all with all sort of HDD softwares but all is well, except one soft called HDD health that showed my 500 gb has 48% health. It remain like that for an year, so i stopped worrying about that. I have stuffed my disk with data and never faced any problem up untill now. Now yesterday i decided to install Ultimate edition 2.7 64-bit. I downloaded it and burned the dvd at 4x speed and how i wanted to install it is like the way that it should go into the 500 gb one without having to do anything with 160 gb one having windows 7. I have done this earlier and it caused absolutely no problem. I just change the boot sequence to whatever disk i wanted to log into windows or linux(remember i did that with the same disks). Now i emptied a partition in 500 gb one, deleted it with the help of partition manager inbuild in windows 7, unplugged the 160 gb and booted thru live cd of UEU 2.7 and started the installation. When i got on the partition selection screen, what it showed me was just a 500 gb of "unallocated space", which i s actually healthy 6 partitions containing data which i have been using for years. No traces of the 30 space i unallocated in windows for linux. Now first question, "Why the hell did it not recognized my HDD when its perfectly operational in windows and i have installed UEU 2.5 on it once". It should have shown me the partitions. Does that means that my HDD was having some problem already ?? Now i booted back in windows, reallocated my 30 gb space, emptied some space from a 160 gb HDD's partition and got back into linux, with both HDD's plugged in this time. Now i started the installation. Again it didnt recognized the 500 gb chunk but did recognized the partitions in 160 gb and also recognized windows 7 installation. I formatted the partition with ext 4, didnt provide any partition for swap as i have 4gb ram and changed the boot loader to GRUB. Installation was successful. I can see all the drives from 160 GB one but only one partition from 500 GB one, no traces of other partitions, not even in Gparted. And yeah, the disk was mounted. Now everything was looking fine, i switched back and forth from windows to linux a couple of times, switched off the computer for some time, switched back on and watched a movie and finally shut down properly last night.
Now this morning my brother switched on the PC and it just wonts start. It restarts again and again just after the BIOS screen. I checked everything but couldnt find the problem. So finally i de attached the hardware one by one and found its the 500 GB that was causing the problem. I plugged it out and booted in again. To my surprise, the windows 7 booted in from 160 GB HDD with no traces of linux what so ever. Its was in the same HDD, i installed the common boot loader and have seen it my self when i switch on the pc, showing all linux options first and then windows 7 as other OS. It has nothing to do with 500 GB one, no dynamic partition, no system files or any thing. I suppose that windows 7 cant take back te boot loader without the help of installation disk and i have not used any. There was not even any kind of system recovery installed. Then how the hell windows 7 came back and linux just disappeared. The partition manager shows that the newly created partition for linux as "healthy and primary" partition.
say it once that all this mess was only due to i screw up the installation and my 500 GB is not dead. I will die without my data.
for some reason my system crashed while installing a package. Now I get this error every time I install/remove a package. I have tried re-installing, removing, forcing options, 'dpkg --configure -a', dpkg-reconfigure. Nothing has worked.
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A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
This is my first tryst with linux, so this might seem to be a very trivial problem: While installing updates for ubuntu 9.04, there was an unexpected crash saying that 'E:dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run sudo dpkg--configure-a' to correct the problem. When I tried to follow the instruction, it said that sudo could not be found. Is this a directory problem? If yes, how do I rectify it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am running Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick/Trinity, it has the KDE 3.5.x desktop. Anyway I went to System to add a monitor and being that my NEC LCD monitor isn't listed I installed the generic 1280X1024 driver. I re-booted the computer and it gets to a command line. No errors are given. So, I log in and I still have no errors and it is still in command line waiting? for me to use another command that I have no idea of what it might want. When I had issues (years ago) with Mandriva I was able to type in init 3 and I could work out my bug. I tried that with Buntu and I got bashed, it didn't recognize the command. Other than this the system has been good.
View 9 Replies View RelatedThe ATI/AMD graphics hardware is:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R7 240 OEM]
I installed "AMD/ATI Open Source Drivers" according to: "[URL] ....":
Reboot after "apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree", the system automaticly reboot after grub, then went black screen forever (no tty1,tty2.., seems cannot booting). I reinstalled serveral times but same problem (having tried both cd/live dvd, debian8.1/8.2).
It seems that "firmware-linux-nonfree" is the cause, since debian crashed once firmware-linux-nonfree installed.
The problem went away by installing ATIProprietary driver("[URL] ....").
PC is dell 9020, i7
I upgraded to 11.04, but the updgrade crashed, and now it has some errors with Unity crashing every time I open a terminal. Is there any way to re-install without having to reconfigure all my programs? I am running a dual-boot.
View 3 Replies View Relatedunfortunaly ububtu 10.10 crashed on both my laptops, and there too old to run 11.04, on my desktop there's ubutnu 10.10, can i backup the files on my desktop and install them on my laptop?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI decided to upgrade my FC installation to the latest version - FC itself offered the upgrade when I turned the machine on, so it appeared that it was nicely packaged to make the upgrade easy.After a long download of packages, the machine rebooted and then started taking me through configuration options (timezone, disks to use for the installation etc) but then it crashed trying to write to disk and now leaves me at a grub prompt whenever I boot.Is there any way to "get at" the installation files and get back into trying to install or do I now need to download an ISO and burn a DVD and start all over again?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have not used ubuntu yet ; but would like to install the latest 9.10 version on an old Medion pc => Windows (XP) crashed and I bought a new Samsung HD to replace the old one.I found that most of the install "How To's" speak of using Windows to start a cd to install UBUNTU.But what can i do to install this latest version on a "free" HD?Nothing installed.
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhile upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10 using Alternate CD, the OS crashed. I had updated the 9.04 with latest updates and then started the upgradation to 9.10 using a Alternate CD. But after some time, the computer resarted and the screen displayed six line of 9.04 startup line. I waited for ten minutes but nothing happned.
What can be the reason and what should be done in that situation.
I was upgrading to 10.04 through the update manager and my pc froze during the install, and I mean dead stop. It's happened a few times since I've come home from college for the summer, but I thought it was just the game I was playing or something so I wasn't concerned.
Now when I try to boot it gives me errors mounting /media/1 and /media/2 and various other others regarding NTFS (yet linux doesnt use NTFS so I'm confused...). When I hit any button that's not a letter (Esc, Delete, Backspace, etc.) it flashes over to a screen that says 10.04 with 4 dots underneath. Similar to what the loading screen should be, yet obviously not the loading screen.
Is there anyway I can install/upgrade this system through a LiveCD or something similar? I can't boot to Linux at all now, but I can boot to the Windows partition on the same hdd.
A few months ago I did a clean install of the unbuntu desktop which I used to run an internal website. The OS was installed on one hard disk and two other hard disks I setup as a mirrored raid. Now when I start the computer I get a GNU GRUB commandline interface and I can't seem to get my installation up and running again. I've tried some of the suggestions for GRUB issues however I can't even get ls to work (gives me an error).
I am at the point where I don't really care about the OS installation but would desperately like to get the data off the raided disks and also a few files off the boot disk. I can't seem to work out how to do this using a liveCD, if I open the disk utility, select the raid and click "Start RAID array" I get a "Not enough components available to start the raid" error.
For the boot disk the major partition is a Linux LVM partition (and I assume the data I need is on that partition) however I cannot work out how to mount it. I really hope you guys can help me as the information is rather important.
I have installed ubuntu 10.10 and upgraded it fully, now when new ubuntu 11.04 came i pressed the upgrade button in the update manager. When download was complete then installation started... At the end of installation ubuntu crashed. Now i don't have it fully installed... Now i can't see desktop or anything.. I just have a Terminal... Is there any way how could i install ubuntu 11.04 missing part on with Terminal i have there.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI was minutes away from finishing my upgrade and the screen went black and the mouse stopped moving. I left it for about 10 minutes to see if it would recover but nothing happened. I had to restart and now I've got nothing, not even a terminal prompt. If I start normally, I get a blinking white cursor (I cannot type) that never goes away and if I try recovery mode It hangs.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have run 10.04 for some time with no issues. I was presented with the system option to upgrade to 11.04. This I did but the upgrade crashed out halfway through the install process, with a 'too many errors to continue upgrade, system maybe unstable'.
On re-boot I am now presented with;
And the system waits for the selection.
So my question is - how to recover this ?
I can get to a shell (#) and see files on the drive (using ls) so I know the drive hasn't died.
i have new HP notebook with preinstalled windows and i'd like to have ubuntu too. But it's rather difficult. Long story:
First I wanted dual boot, Ubuntu on separate partition, but then I discovered that I have four primary partitions for windows. SYSTEM (I think nessesary for windows boot) c: (where windows is installed) RECOVERY (for restoring factory settings) HP_TOOLS (needed for right function of HP BIOS)
ok, what now? Windows partition tool let me create dynamic partition (not extended) but ubuntu partition tool can see only four partitions.
Then the wubi idea came. If I can't have dual boot wubi can be solution. But it failed too. Behavior is similar to
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that is installer say "extracting kernel" and few seconds later just close. Sadly I can't find log file (searching filesystem for word wubi and searching directory c:/users/hater/appdata/local/temp) to discover what's the problem.
i started upgrading ubuntu 9.10 and then the computer was restarted in office due to reset button pressed accidentally. when i started the machine, now the network manager is gone, and other printer connection is lost (samsung scx-4300) now we dont know how to repair since to complete upgrade i need internet connection which is missing due to this crash.can anybody help? i dont want to reinstall and loose all our settings, installed softwares and user info as well as printer setup etc. or is there anyway where i can just repair to previous version of ubuntu (restore to previous point) where things work as they were.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI was trying to upgrade to 10.04 (from 9.10 x86_64)when the update manager crashed without any warning or errors. it happened while the packages were being installed, as a result of which i could no longer login into gnome. so i logged in using the terminal and since i had cleaned the cache before upgrading i ran sudo -i dpkg *.deb (there were a large number of deb files in it, so i thought those were the upgrade packages) but the process couldn't be completed. it said that there were too many errors. after rebooting, gnome doesn't start and i can see lucid development version in the terminal. it also didn't detect my usb keyboard.do i have to reinstall ubuntu.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 when my laptop crashed due to a HW issue not related to upgrade. But now when I start:
1) The laptop, it boots up till the point GDM log in screen is displayed without any log-in option. The system does not respond to any keyboard or mouse actions.
2) when I try to recover (recovery mode), the boot process comes til a point where it says "Console: switching to color frame buffer device 180x56"
And the prompt just stays there. It does not not drop to terminal. When I choose an older option in the grub, I do get dropped to initramfs prompt. How to restore my machine. re-instillation is not an option as I have some data I need in the home directory.
I was updating Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 and my computer crashed/shutoff because of overheating(my laptop doesn't ever do this when running Windows 7 but seems to really need to be as cool as possible when running Ubuntu). the update was at about 12-18 minutes left(also i am using wubi to have it run alongside windows). After getting pissed off that i forgot to backup Ubuntu i restarted it to see if it would finish updating.
To my dismay it the loading screen looked a bit unusual and when it go to the login screen the word "Ubuntu" was flashing uncontrollably and the time in the bottom right corner was acting the same. i feel that i have totally ruined it and i also don't know how i can remove Ubuntu from my computer so that i could reinstall it as Ubuntu 11.04 instead of upgrading from 10.10. i still have Wubi.exe for Ubuntu 10.10 but i'm not sure if that just searches for the most recent version of Ubuntu.
I was updating my netbook to the 11.04 when it crashed (I thought is was on the grid, what do you think? it wasn't!) Now if I try to do it again I get a notification and then it stops.
These are the last few lines of/var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log:
2011-05-07 11:15:47,352 DEBUG entry 'deb [URL] natty main #Third party developers repository' is already set to new dist
2011-05-07 11:15:47,353 DEBUG examining: 'deb [URL] natty partner'
2011-05-07 11:15:47,353 DEBUG entry 'deb [URL] natty partner' is already set to new dist
2011-05-07 11:15:47,354 DEBUG examining: 'deb [URL] maverick main'
2011-05-07 11:15:47,355 DEBUG entry 'deb [URL] natty main' updated to new dist
2011-05-07 11:15:47,405 DEBUG running doUpdate() (showErrors=True)
2011-05-07 11:15:48,260 DEBUG openCache()
2011-05-07 11:15:48,261 DEBUG failed to SystemUnLock() (E:Niet vergrendeld)
2011-05-07 11:15:48,620 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 1668
2011-05-07 11:15:48,622 DEBUG needServerMode(): run in 'desktop' mode, (because of key deps for 'ubuntu-desktop')
2011-05-07 11:15:48,623 ERROR No 'ubuntu-minimal' available/downloadable after sources.list rewrite+update
2011-05-07 11:16:13,016 DEBUG abort called
2011-05-07 11:16:13,027 DEBUG openCache()
2011-05-07 11:16:13,028 DEBUG failed to SystemUnLock() (E:Niet vergrendeld)
2011-05-07 11:16:13,440 DEBUG /openCache(), new cache size 1668
2011-05-07 11:16:13,442 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
I am writing this from a LiveDVD of 11.04. My machine, which is an Inspiron1501 with AMD64 dualcore crashed while running a working copy of 10.04LTS 32bit. At first Harddrived seemed unrecoverable, but not that may not be the case if I can mount it. HD is partitioned as 1 FAT which holds the OEM installer1 NTFS with a sub/ virtual NTFS (not as a file, but as a "partition", only readable from WinXX) 1 Linux Swap 1 Linux Extention 3 (I believe it is 3, as in EXT FS 3) Machine initially displayed:
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[ 2.736258] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)_
After following some advice, I booted into Win and shutdown cleanly. Which has made the machine only say this on boot:
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No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
BusyBox v1.13.3 (Ubuntu 1:1.13.3-1ubuntu11) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
(initramfs)_
Now, to make things a little more complicated, my home directory is encrypted. Could I just copy that over to a new install provided I can get it to mount?
I use the sleep function on a timer. Unfortunately recently it has become faulty and I have found that I could not wake the computer up and so had to do resets. This seems to have caused the nvidia drivers to be damaged and I now can not use my dual screens.
The xorg.0.log shows
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X.Org X Server 1.6.4
Release Date: 2009-9-27
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-23-server i686 Ubuntu
[code]....
also in the missing recommendations are a number of nv-xxx-kernel-sources. I have not tried to install them. what I need to do to get the glx installed and the nvidia-195 activated?
i was install wine with the soft ware center when my computer crashed, now i cant uninstall it or cointinue the installation or unistall, when i do try to unistall i press the unistall icon nothing happens. when i go into the software center to try and reinstall it says waiting for other software managers to quit,
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have just downloaded version 10.04 for my laptop as the previous version (9.?) stopped the internal fan from working. As it was installing the laptop got too hot and turned itself off. I have tryed to reboot but it won't.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic, but once I loaded Karmic and rebooted, my computer will not complete the boot up sequence and go into any desktop. It starts the initial boot sequence with the mouse appearing and then goes to the screen that looks like it has an atom cloud. After that, the screen goes black and the mouse-arrow turns into that white rotating wheel, but it stays that way. It never actually goes into any type of operation! I tried to go from the command line and find Lucid to overlay it on Karmic and hopefully solve the problem. It just looks like to me that several of the packages I downloaded through my upgrade manager were corrupted. My computer doesn't even seem to be acknowledging my password because it gives me an error 32:must be authenticated.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI started the upgrade to 10.10 and now the upgrade process is trying to get some input in the orange window. Problem is I can't bring that window to the front because metacity crashed. When I try to start metacity from a console it dumps core. How do I continue the upgrade?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10 and the computer completely froze and I restarted it thinking I would be able to restart the update where I left off (I'm new to ubuntu). However when I restart I can't get anywhere, if I boot normally the ubuntu screen comes up and then it stops with the computer name in the middle of the screen and thats it (can't do anything i can't get into shell via ctrl-alt-f1 etc..) if i use the recovery from the grub menu it loads a bunch of things then stops i can't type anything but I can switch using ctrl-alt-f1 and ctrl-alt-f7 but I don't see anything except:
under ctrl-alt-f1 the last line reads:
[2.711773] composite sync not supported
under ctrl-alt-f7: the last lines read
fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
init: udevtrigger main process (421) terminated with status 1
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I thought I would play around with php for a while and so set forth to configure apache. Whilst I was reading a website for installing LAMP stuff on ubuntu I thought I would give it a go. I installed a LAMP server with:
sudo tasksel install lamp-server
and lo and behold it crashed my operating system upon restart. So both my laptop and desktop were toast.
Everything is reinstalled now so is fine and I have installed apache2 and php5 from separate packages. The one thing that's troubling me is why it crashed. It seemed to uninstall vlc media player, m-player and gnome-player as well as removing the "switch accounts" button on the lock screen. Does anyone know 1) why it died and/or 2) why it chose to eliminate those programs specifically.