Ubuntu :: Karmic Fails To Restart On Dell Laptop - Only Logo Shows Briefly - Error
Jun 28, 2010
Have been running Karmic 910 for six months on a Dell Latitude D510 laptop with a Pentium M CPU, 2 GB of RAM and Intel 915 graphics, and I really like it, especially the Gnome desktop. However, a glitch occured after suspending, resuming, shutting down and trying to restart. Now after selecting Ubuntu in Grub the Ubuntu logo shows up onscreen, doesn't seem to pulsate, and eventually is replaced by an error message that the system gave up waiting for root device.
The LiveCD shows the Ubuntu partition as unrecognized, unknown or unused in Palimpsest Disk Utility, though Gparted shows it as normal ext4. The partition doesn't show up in Places. From the command prompt (via ctrl-alt-F1) I'm able to run fdisk, which shows the partitions but am unable to mount the Ubuntu sda4 partition - the error message is that the file type must be specified.
Starting recovery mode in Grub brings about 25 lines of startup messages, mostly dealing with usb devices, but a few render errors are there too. The last message before dropping to the ash shell is that a device could not be found. (ALERT! /dev/disk/by-uuid/5cee... does not exist.) The ash commands are completely new to me, so I haven't had any luck with recovery mode.
If the problem is related to Intel graphics, I would like to try some "quirks" (software fixes for hardware problems, including Intel graphics bugs) mentioned on the ubuntu.wiki site. I'd also like to recover the data on the desktop, but so far cannot get into the file system.
Does GRUB need to be reinstalled? If so, why?
Would reinstalling without formatting anything preserve the data?
Would upgrading to Lucid help prevent the problem from occurring again?
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Apr 3, 2010
I can't willingly cause this to happen, it's completely random. I strongly believe it is the video card. My wife insists that it's a virus, but it's ridiculously hard to get a virus on Linux and she doesn't have anything relevant on the matter other than 'people are switching to it on Facebook, so hackers are attacking it now.'.
Here's my specs:
Distro: Xubuntu 9.04
Laptop: Dell Inspiron 9300
Processor: 1.02Ghz
Memory/RAM: 512
Video Card: ATI Radeon X300
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Mar 26, 2011
I'm running 64 bit Ubuntu, and on the start-up after I pass the GRUB it goes blank for a minute then briefly shows the splash for 5-10 secs and then jumps to the login screen. Also the screen is offset by about 10-15 pixels but from the login screen onwards it is centred. (It's also like this for if I'm in recovery mode)
How do I fix this and Im wondering if it is a hardware problem?
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when i restart my system some times it shows grub error as 17 or 15 and in that situation used the dvd rescue mode and run the commands
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but no use any one that how to trouble shoot these grub errors tell me commands need to be run there.
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i have Ubuntu10.10 (kernel-2.6.35-22-generic) installed. struct stat StatBuff;
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I have mounted a windows share folder on /mnt. When i gave any directory within /mnt/ to stat function it fails with errorno 75. perror shows "Value too large for defined data type". Example 1 is fail but Example 2 works fine.
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i managed to install 10.10 with nomodeset parameter but now i am facing a new issue. After the installation finished i was forceded to restart my system in order the installation to get done. I did it but i ended up with a black screen and ubuntu logo in the middle of it. Do ihave to go through recovery mode and enter something?
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Sep 30, 2010
I have windows vista. i tried installed linux-ubuntu 9.10 but not knowing after a point on how to proceed further, i quit half-way. so my partition (14 gb)remained wasted. i tried installing again in a new partition and got it done. from my newly installed lunux, i tried to delete that 14gb partition. and now when i restart my laptop, i get this error :
GRUB loading.
error: unknown filesystem
grub rescue>
I would like to know what exactly has happened and how do i get this resolved.
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Mar 15, 2010
Once I select Ubuntu 9.10 from Grub, it shows the logo, the logo disappears, a jet black screen shows with 2 horizontal white dashes appear at the top.
I recently uninstalled Firefox 3.6 pre using synaptic to go with the stable Firefox 3.6 installed with the PPA repository that was given in the Ubuntu wiki. It installed and ran fine but when I rebooted, ubuntu wouldn't start.
I went into recovery mode a few times, tried to fix any broken packages and when it said it was fixed, I tried rebooting and the same error occurred. I also tried to use dpkg-reconfigure for the xserver-xorg and then ran startx but x didn't load properly. Some more debugging and a few driver errors came up involving intel so I installed a package which fixed that.
Ran the dpkg-reconfigure again and ran startx. This time x loaded but it was a jet black screen and I had to hold ctrl + alt and hit a few F keys to get back to the prompt.
I understand this could be a xulrunner error so I tried reinstalling xulrunner-1.9.1. I also rolled back my repositories to get the Firefox 3.5 branch and I installed the original Firefox 3.5, ran firefox --version to make sure and I finally have that back installed.
I tried rebooting and running the OS normally, but again it failed at the same point. What exactly should I do next? Yes, I could reinstall but it's such a small problem with maybe 1 or 2 broken packages, is there anyway I can save my current ubuntu system (as I have made countless configuration changes months ago and I do not want to do it again)?
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I have Dell Inspiron 1545. It works fine on wired but fails on wireless.
I am using wicd as an interface.
It always comes up with the following error: Connection Failed: Bad password.
I have checked the passwords in both wicd and the router.
They seem to be the same. Am I missing something ?
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I am using a dell laptop which has Dell 1397 802.11B/G Wireless Mini Card. I not able to connect to internet and was not able to detect what actual problem is weather card is not supported (i.e. drivers are not available) .
Also, if any one can point to exact process to connect to wireless Lan using fedora12.
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These problems just started the last couple of days but I have been using Lucid 10.04 for a month now. My wireless Signal varies in strength wildly. I sitting at home, not 20 feet from my router. I never had these problems before Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04. I am running both Network Manager and Wicd.
Errors:
1. Wicd states "Wrong Password" which is not true.
2. Dropping off-line for no reason, sometimes 3 or 4 times a minute and sometimes it works fine for hours.
3. Firefox 3.6.3 Automatically Checking "Work Offline"!?
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I have the Proper Wireless Drivers. I have not changed my wireless settings, channel or WPA for 8 months now so I know thats not it.
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I've tested my wireless internet with another laptop which is running vista, and it works perfectly on that. Also, I'm running Fedora 10 on an Acer Extensa laptop.
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I recently got a Dell Netbook Mini10v with Ubuntu 8.04 preinstalled. It does not give the option to upgrade using the normal features in the GUI (as far as I can tell) how should I go about upgrading my system to 9.10?
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Mar 4, 2010
I am unable to install karmic on my dell inspiron1464 laptop. It has core i3 processor n 2 gb ram with windows7 already installed. I had installed karmic on my pc n it didn't gave any problem but when I am trying to install it on my laptop it is just showing the try ubuntu n install ubuntu options and when I select the option to install it is showing blank screen n after sometime even the cd stops working n I have to reboot again. I want to install karmic on my laptop with dual boot option wit windows 7.
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This is a regression I used to see way back in 8.10. When totem was started, the screen would black out briefly and then the normal display would resume. Installing the propriety drivers fixed this.After 8.10, my Radeon X1300 card became unsupported by ATI, but the open-source drivers did a good job. No blacking out.
Now with Lucid, I get the old black outs. They also occur when:
1) System | Preferences | Monitors is selected.
2) Just after login, ever since Wine was installed.
3) When any Wine-ran application is started.
I installed the radeonhd driver, but that is horribly slow and in some cases I could not reboot into a normal session. When it did work, instead of a black out, there's be a few black bands flicking on the screen. Googling has not revealed much, in fact my original 8.10 post here appears! So do I: grit my teeth and bear it, jump back to Karmic, get a new card, or is there a fix?
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Jul 3, 2010
i installed ubuntu on my samsung x30 yesterday while connected to my external monitor. when i power on my laptop the samsung start up screen appears both on my laptop and monitor however as soon as ubuntu starts the laptop screen breaks into two solid colours, ubuntu only works on the screen.
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Oct 7, 2010
I have an IBM ThinkPad W700 running 64 bit Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. At the office I normally connect it to the Ethernet since it's never connected very reliably to the wifi there (drops out 2 or 3 times per day, usually at the worst possible time, of course), but it always worked just fine with Netgear WGR614v5 at home... until a week or two ago.
I used to be able to come home, take the laptop out of suspend mode, and it would connect to the wifi. Occasionally there'd be some hitch and I'd have to restart the network manager (sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager restart) but this was only sometimes, and when I did, it'd always work. But now, when I get home from work, I need to restart the entire system to get it to connect properly again. Without restarting the whole system, it either doesn't scan for wifi networks, it doesn't find any wifi networks, it keeps stuffing up my wifi password, or it connects and gets 0% signal.
Presumably, some driver was updated recently and it doesn't work so well. What's the easiest way to find out what drivers have been updated lately, and revert to a previous version? And what else can I try restarting so I don't have to restart the entire system? I've tried /etc/init.d/network-manager restart, /etc/init.d/networking restart, /etc/init.d/network-interface restart, and restart network-manager. I've also tried turning the wireless switch at the front of the laptop off and on, many times.
Code:
$ lspci -nn
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03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless Wifi Link 5300 [8086:4236]
[...]
$ ifconfig wlan0
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The info above is when I've taken my laptop out of suspend mode and it won't connect to the network. lsmod doesn't say anything about wifi nor wireless; iwlist does see my network, which my older Januty laptop is connected to without drama.
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Aug 10, 2010
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Nov 10, 2010
I'm accustomed to Ubuntu showing 3.9GB out of 4GB on my desktop. That's completely ordinary and expected: The kernel uses a dozen megs or so, which are not accounted for in the reported memory totals. After truncating, that brings us to 3.9GB.
I was expecting to see the same thing on my Elitebook 8740w, but System Monitor is reporting only 3.7GB instead, using the same version of Ubuntu. free -m shows:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3819 935 2883 0 80 287
-/+ buffers/cache: 567 3252
Swap: 4095 0 4095
That is to say, the total of 3819MB is not missing a mere dozen or so MB but a full 267MB from 4096MB! That's WAY too much to be accounted for by the kernel, so something else is going on!
Please note the following:BIOS shows the full 4GB, and so does lshw.
uname -a = Linux COMPNAME 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:45:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lspci | grep VGA = 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Broadway XT [Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series]
That is to say, I really do have 4GB RAM, my mobo and BIOS recognize it, I really am running a 64-bit OS, and I really shouldn't have any kind of onboard graphics.
The devil lies in the details though: I SHOULDN'T have any kind of onboard graphics...but the best explanation I can come up with is that 256MB or so are being set aside for that purpose anyway. This is a mobile workstation with dedicated Firepro graphics (based on the Mobility Radeon HD 5800), and it's well beyond the range of laptops that include switchable graphics. However, it has an i5 processor, so I think it's conceivable that the laptop is being tricked into allocating RAM for integrated graphics. This is especially likely considering I get the same i915 error as the threadstarter here, and I have very similar command line output.
Presumed Problem: Long story short, I think Ubuntu is seeing the i5 processor and setting aside 256MB or so for the integrated graphics which it THINKS I have, which are actually totally unavailable to use on this particular laptop. If this is the case, does anyone know how to make it stop doing this, so I can make that memory accessible to the rest of the system?
Update: Interestingly, even Memtest is showing only 3952MB. This may or may not account for the full missing amount, but it obviously counts for a lot. I'm used to Memtest showing I think 4095MB on my desktop, meaning Memtest itself presumably only takes ~1MB. Actually, even on the laptop Memtest says only 1024KB are reserved, so 143MB are totally unaccounted for.
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I have an Intel NIC supporting iSCSI boot.I successfully installed Karmic Server 64-bit on the iSCSI target.But it won't boot from it.It looks like it can't mount the iSCSI target:
Code:
Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: ...
and it drops me to a BusyBox shell.
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When I close the lid of my notebook computer and it goes to sleep and then awake, there is no audio. I have read a few other's postings and have found that this has happens on more than just mine. I've installed the very same Karmic custom DVD onto other computers, including laptops, and sounds works after wakeup on them just fine. So I suspect there is something with my Gateway that is causing it. In the end, I have to reboot simply to get the audio to return.
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