Ubuntu Installation :: Installing 10.10 Via Wubi Crashes On "recalculating Splines"
Feb 15, 2011
I have tried 2 fresh installs of Ubuntu 10.10 from Wubi. After the initial Windows install I reboot, select Ubuntu, get the countdown (at which point I have to hit ESC for options or it will just hang), then select the 'ACPI Workrounds' option. I get to the purple splash screen with preview slide show and Ubuntu begins finalizing the install. The progress bar goes all he way to the end, reading "recalculating splines", but then my system reboots.
When I chose Ubuntu again I have the standard option and the 'safe mode' option. Neither get me back to the purple splash screen, but instead just hang. Safe mode will begin to load, then hang on [ 1.771083] ata: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps...
I have tried to edit the Grub for both of these options. I tried adding (variously) 'nomodeset', 'noapic', 'nolapic' and have deleted 'quiet splash' [I don't recall every combination of commands I tried, so if there is a specific set please let me know]. No matter what I try here, as soon as I hit CTRL-X, it goes to a screen stating: "Booting command list". It just hangs on this screen and I can not type anything in. I am forced to pull the power cord to reboot.
I am running an older laptop: Toshiba Satellite A135; Intel Celleron Processor and 2 gigs of RAM, Windows Vista Home Basic pre-installed
PS: The only errors I could find in a Google search having to do with "splines" was in relation to Ooo.
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ps: I intend on installing Ubuntu again once this hard disk issue is resolved!
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Windows 7 Ubuntu Ubuntu
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Code: ID 12d1:140c Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
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Maybe there is a possibility to set it up command line?
Code: Application: KDE-Kontrollmodul (kdeinit4), signal: Segmentation fault [KCrash Handler] #6 0x00007f60ca29ea7a in ?? () from /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_networkmanagement.so #7 0x00007f60ca2981c1 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_networkmanagement.so #8 0x00007f60de2bb87f in QMetaObject::activate(QObject*, QMetaObject const*, int, void**) () from /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so.4
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Boot parameters like "text" "single" or vga=xxx didn't work, adding nomodest and nouveau.modset again didn't help either (I think "text" acutally brings up the console, but i just see an unreadable "blacker" screen than normal). Is there an boot option for grub to disable all nvidia related drivers and the graphical login manager and just show a text based console? Or force the gfx driver to be the same as in the installation process (which was perfect...native resolution, no graphical errors until the reboot) (i tried xforcevesa without any luck; nosplash and removing quiet/splash does work - the bootup process is readable, but as soon as the login manager starts its messed up again)
