Ubuntu :: Sometimes The Startup Process Fails
Mar 13, 2011
I recently got a new HDD for my laptop. Did a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04. The install worked fine, updated everything with update manager. The problem: Sometimes the startup process fails, but this only occurs randomly. When startup fails I am left with a black screen with a line of strange pixelated red characters along the very top of the screen (they actually remind me of that old space-invaders game). This occurs before the boot-splash or login screen can appear. The system in this condition will not respond even to a REISUB command. It has to be hard-booted. Most of the time however, Ubuntu boots up fine with not a problem to be seen.
I also had this same error occur once when using the 10.04 live CD. (Please note: the cd is not the problem, I always check my md5 sums on downloads and verify burns).
View 2 Replies
ADVERTISEMENT
Dec 5, 2010
I installed Gnunet (a secure P2P program) on Ubuntu 10.10 using Ubuntu software centre but had difficulties getting it to work so removed it. However, the gnunetd process loads at startup. It is only visible when typing 'top' in the console and not in the system monitor list of processes.gnunetd --version tells me that it is 0.8.1b sudo apt-get remove gnunetd tells me 'unable to locate package' why the process loads and how to remove it? I can kill it in the console but would like a way of getting rid of it permanently.
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 8, 2010
This morning I updated my system as prompted by the update manager. Upon reboot, I got "grub:sh>". After doing some googling and a bit of trial and error, I managed to figure out that I can manually boot successfully by executing the following commands.
Code:
grub:sh> linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=/dev/sda1 loop=/ubuntu/disks/root.disk ro
grub:sh> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
[code]....
View 7 Replies
View Related
May 6, 2010
I have not been able to find any information on this, mostly because I am sure I am searching for the wrong terms. Let me explain what it is I need to do.I have a timeclock process that needs to be running all the time on my Red Hat server. Right now, I manually start the process from terminal:Code:# ./timeclockThis runs the process inside the terminal. The only problem is that if I close the terminal by accident, the timeclock stops working. This is all well and good for now, until I get more timeclocks.Then I will need to have one terminal open per. What I would like to do is to make this process run at start up, and run behind the scenes (no terminal). At the same time, I need to be able to re-run the process (again, hopefully behind the scenes) in case the timeclock goes offline or the process crashes.I know very basic things about Linux administration, and I know it is possible to do this (as there are processes now setup by someone else that do this), I just do not know how. EDIT: An idea I had would be to make the script run every minute, checking to see if the process is already running, and if it is not, then to start it. That way it would automatically correct itself if it went offline.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jan 24, 2010
I grabbed the dapper drake "alternate" install ISO and burned it from my Macbook Pro to a boot disk, and went through the entire install process on my Power Mac G4 400mhz "Yikes!". After install it starts right up to the boot prompt (is that what its called?), and i generally just hit "enter". after a flash to a white screen, it comes back to a black screen and gives me a few lines of errors, the first of which reads:
[code]...
Now the drive that linux is installed on was literally formatted right then by the installer, so i'm not sure what the issue may be. I have another drive on the disk with Mac OS 9 installed that is set as the master drive, but it seemed to find the linux drive no problem. during install i was informed it would write partions #3 and #4 to the drive.
View 9 Replies
View Related
Jul 18, 2010
I cannot get MySQL to start on startup. Every time I need to run the following command from the command line to get it going:
Code:
start mysql
If I try to use MySQL from the command line before starting MySQL I get
Code:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
How to resolve this once and for all
View 6 Replies
View Related
Aug 7, 2009
probably after an upgrade, my fedora 11 64 bit take about 1 minutes to start... if I press esc key during boot process I can see that it stuck when start "sm-client" for long tim
View 9 Replies
View Related
Mar 17, 2011
I am trying to make a file run at startup (e.g. runlevel 5). Here is what I done;
Copied file to /etc/init.d/rc5.d with these permissions:
-rwx------ 1 root root 274 Mar 17 08:33 noip2.sh
Contents of this file is:
Code:
#! /bin/sh
# . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions # uncomment/modify for your killproc
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting noip2."
[Code]....
And the file this is supposed to run is in /usr/local/bin/noip2 with the permissions as:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80431 Mar 17 08:16 noip2
However, this didn't worked for me. What can I do?
Edit: I can run shell file by invoking it with terminal. So there is no problem with the file
View 9 Replies
View Related
Nov 9, 2009
The boot process fails using; 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64. I am able to successfully boot by selecting 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 from GRUB. The last few messages I receive when booting using 2.6.30.9-96.fc11.x86_64;
ADDRCONF (NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
Sky2 eth0 link is up at 100 mps, full duplex flow control rx
ADDRCONF (NETDEV_CHANGE):eth0: link becomes ready
audit (1257757711.701:20095): auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:readahead_t:s0 op=remove role key=null list=2 res=0
audit (1257757711.701:20096): audit_enabled=0 old=1 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:readahead_t:s0 res=1
View 1 Replies
View Related
Feb 15, 2011
I have a script that needs to start executing on startup. Because I originally wrote it for MacOSX I never cared to learn how to daemonize it (thanks launchd!). Are there any relatively easy ways to run it on startup on debian to?
View 2 Replies
View Related
May 18, 2011
I just recently put Ubuntu 10.10 for ppc on a Cd-R and installed it onto an old Mac I had found. The installation seemed perfectly fine I booted the computer and was presented to boot with two options "Linux" and "old" or to press enter and boot default. I had decided to boot default and it reaches the splash screen where the loading bar advances two dots and then completely stops.
View 7 Replies
View Related
Nov 26, 2009
I just installed Opensuse 11.2, and have come across the following error upon bootup: the display manager screen refuses to load, unless I type STARTX at the cli line. the error messages read: failed services in runlevel 5 /etc/init.d/xdm.orig start returned 6 earlyxdm postfix Further, I am unable to activate the xdm service under Yast. Has anyone else run across this error? Not sure how to resolve.
View 9 Replies
View Related
Jan 10, 2011
I'm currently running Fedora 13 and updated the system in the morning with the help of 'yumex'. It complained about a couple of unresolved dependencies regarding new kernel and kmod-nvidia, so I manually skipped these packages for now (this happened before some time ago and worked then a couple of days later). I installed all other packages like firefox, thunderbird, kde, gnome pidgin etc. though.
I think I remember also to have seen some X11 stuff, but aren't quite sure (not updating often, so always getting quite a number of packages at once). The problem is that the system doesn't start any longer. The start screen shows the blue progress bar, then flickers and the system halts. I tried to start any of the last two older kernels but with the same result. When running in verbose mode I can see the following:
...
Checking for module nvidia.ko: [OK]
Enabling the nvidia driver: /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions: line 530: 1033 Segmentation fault "$@"
[FAILED]
...
There are a couple of more successful steps afterwards, but the system will never start. I tried a different runlevel by appending 'init 2' to the startup line, but wasn't able to login with any of my users. In despair I tried the link 'Updating to Fedora 13' from the boot menu, but it isn't actually offering an upgrade, but a complete re-install instead.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Jul 18, 2010
I am facing a problem that sendmail gets failed during startup and the server could not get forward after that server gets hanged.I triedr several times and finally i have to resetup the os.A few days back i also faced same problem with Squid gets failed after rebooting the server and the server cant get to login screens.How to get rid of this problem
View 7 Replies
View Related
Sep 1, 2010
ntpd startup fails during boot.Does startup just fine manually from command line once it's booted though. Any suggestions what I might adjust?
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jul 17, 2011
HP Mini 210 x86_64
Fedora 15 latest upgrades
I was running
Code:
skype-2.2.0.25-fedora.i586.rpm
Which I downloaded from the skype website. This version worked fine. However, I did use it for a long time. I tried it last night and it didn't work. I got the following error:
Code:
Failed to lauch skype, failed to execute child process
[Code].....
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jul 1, 2011
This is the first time I'm trying out chmsee on 11.4 (I've tried on previous version - never had any issues with it).The problem is chmsee fails to start. It gives error as shown below:
Code:
** (chmsee:11798): WARNING **: GECKO_UTILS >>> Couldn't find a compatible GRE!
** ERROR **: Initialize html render engine failed!
[code]....
View 2 Replies
View Related
Mar 3, 2010
This one has been bugging me for some time now. The network interface (as defined in Debian's /etc/network/interfaces file) fails to obtain an IP address from myuter. However dhclient br0 does.I'm using br0 since I run a XP virtual machine.network/interface changes are from a Debian howto on setting up the tap interface.As near as I can tell, the /etc/init.d/networking script basically calls /sbin/ifup -a. ifup is a binary.My /etc/network/interfaces file is:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
[code]...
View 5 Replies
View Related
Jun 28, 2010
On startup my machine (a PC a few years old with recent Fedora 13 clean install) seems to be OK until it tries to get to the Login GUI, where it stalls at the f/infinity Fedora logo. The last things I did before shutting down my computer last were uninstalling the mail client Evolution via the GUI package manager and downloading a torrent. Could these have effected such a stuff up? I'm not altogether clear on logging in via a terminal.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Mar 11, 2011
Same problem with 11.4 x64 DVD version (gnome default). System ends with text before showing logon screen allso in failsafe
[code]...
View 6 Replies
View Related
Mar 29, 2010
A couple weeks ago I installed Ubuntu Security and Recommended Updates that included an update to Linux Kernel 2.6.31-20. Upon installing these updates I was prompted to restart my computer for the changes to take effect. So I rebooted and encountered a Hyper Transport Sync Flood error each time I tried to boot, preventing me from booting into the OS.The above linked forum thread about the error suggested I manually adjust voltage settings in the BIOS to resolve the issue, so I gave it a try to no avail. Then I decided I would just reset my BIOS settings to the defaults (seeing as I hadn't edited that many settings to begin with). After doing so, I tried booting only to encounter a black screen with "GRUB _" printed on it.
I have encountered this issue before when I initially installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my system, but I'm not sure whether this occurrence is strictly BIOS setting related or if something effected my bootloader. (On a side note, resetting my BIOS settings to defaults seemed to, at least for now, eliminate the Hyper Transport Sync Flood error I was getting...and instead leave me with another problem.)I used this script created by meierfra. to provide info on my current boot setup, the results of which are displayed below.
Code:
RESULTS.txt is posted below:
Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010
[code]....
View 6 Replies
View Related
Feb 16, 2009
just built a computer and wanted to try out some linux.
First off I burned the Fedora 10 x86_64 disk image (using disk utility on my mac at 4x speed then verified it) to a dvd. I start the install. "x startup fails to load, falling back to text mode" comes up. I use the text install then. It gets to the actual installation of the different packages then a black screen shows up with white text that's highlighted red (sometimes it's blue). It then freezes and I reboot. Sometimes it freezes at different points and with different messages, but the description above is what happens most often.
I try writing it at 1x speed and verifying. same thing.I try the Live CD. It freezes.Then I tried Fedora 9. same thing.
Next I go to Ubuntu 8.10.I try the regular install, but the orange loading bar freezes.I try the Live CD-like install. It runs!...but when i go to install, when it gets to the partitioning part, it freezes and becomes unresponsive.
Each time it froze I let it sit for about 10 minutes, just to make sure it is in fact frozen. I've tried these installs numerous times.
View 9 Replies
View Related
Nov 11, 2010
I've some file with .sh extensions that runs some softwares.Now,how do I stop running that filesI know we run the command ./start_tomcat.sh to start the apache.Is there any command to stop that file/process or is it just kill the process to stop the process
View 2 Replies
View Related
Jan 8, 2010
one tell me the internal working of kill command. that is how it kills a process internally or from where it picks file to continue its process.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jan 21, 2011
I have a high priority service that I start with sudo nice -n -10 process. This process does not need superuser rights though, except for the priority elevation. But nice requires superuser privileges to elevate priority.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Jun 12, 2010
send the details raid configuration how to use in linux el5 and how to indentify the raid degrade process and how to rebuilt the process.
View 4 Replies
View Related
Sep 8, 2010
Code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
[code]....
Description of what the code does or what i intended to do:
1. Created a child process from parent process using 'fork()'
2. Sent a signal 'SIGALRM' from child process to parent process using 'sigqueue' function.
(The Third parameter of 'siqueue' function contains the message (message msg) which the child process wants to send to the parent process.'msg' is a stucture instance containing a) pid of child and b) string) 5. Print the 'msg' sent by child process inside the signal handler function 'sig_action_function' of the parent process I am getting some junk value when this line is executed
Code:
printf("%d
",msg->cpid);
I expected to get the pid of child process, which the child process sent to parent process through the signal.
View 3 Replies
View Related
Aug 12, 2010
as we all know Process Scheduler does Process scheduling and its a process as well. I was just wondering that if this happens then the Process "Process Scheduler" should be a part of Process queue as well.
So if there are 5 process are there in Process queue & process scheduler is administrating them then since its also a process, once it puts a process under RUN state it should itself go inside queue because at one instant only one process can get executed on a processor. This is quite confusing for me. Please help me out. I tried to search on this but could not find any relevant topics.
View 1 Replies
View Related
May 4, 2010
How do you find the parent process of zombie processes?
When the child process is something where the parent is not entirely obvious...
Is there some way to list processes in tree format or something?
View 3 Replies
View Related
Nov 9, 2010
I have a shell script to identify whether the process is running or not. If the process is not running, then I execute another script file to run my application. Below is my script and saved this script as monitorprocess.sh Code: #!/bin/bash
result=$(ps -ef | grep -v grep | grep "applicationname.sh" | awk '{print $2}')
echo $result
if [ "$result" == "" ];
[code]...
View 4 Replies
View Related
