I've just installed gNatty 11.04 on my machine the first thing I've done is to update via the terminal:Quote:sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgradeAll seemed fine but when I've gone to restart it gets stuck at this message while booting:Quote:Stopping System V runlevel compatibility've reinstalled but the problem is still occurring,
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Boot of a new minimal system hangs on "Stopping save kernel messages" or "stopping system v runlevel compatibility". I have ubuntu minimal iso x86_64 from usb stick created with unetbootin (don't have a cd drive on the machine in question), and after that I didsudo aptitude install gnome-terminal network-manager-gnome gdm geditsudo rebootnever got a system back. Annoyingly I can't boot into the recovery mode either, and it seems the keyboard is only semi-responsive (i.e. many dead keys when at the grub menu).qualms about reinstalling, but I've done this a few times and ended up at the same place every time.
View 6 Replies View RelatedUsing one of my Ubu machines (11.04) while his machine is away at rehab. That machine has been running fine, but today he was removing his Android phone and his USB connected NTFS external (both using Safely Remove) and...Phone safely removed Drive gave an error (couldn't remove probably the device busy error) Reboot. Now it won't boot past that point ("stopping system v run level compatibility").
View 4 Replies View RelatedI use release 11.2 and this one works very well. I try new release 11.3 and my system crash when I wont to start system on runlevel 5. There is Sempron 2 GHz CPU and nvidia fx550 graphics card. Keyboard PS2 does not responds but mouse on USB work well. When I start "safe" boot option system work well. What I can to do ? What I must change
View 4 Replies View Relatedrunlevels 2 -5 are identical in Ubuntu. /etc/init/rc-sysinit.conf is used instead of /etc/inittab for changing the runlevel. But there's no point doing that since the runlevels are identical. The default runlevel is 2, so I tried to find some service I could disable in /etc/rc2.d. I didn't find anything I could work with.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu 10.04.1 yesterday, and I've been trying to install my nvidia 240 drivers for it. I've done this multiple times on 9.## and it worked fine. When I try to install them it says i need to shutdown xserver. so I open terminal and type sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop screen goes blank and all there is is a flashing _ at the beginning. I'm not able to anything except type, but no commands work.
So, I tried starting it up in recovery mode root shell or whatever, and it shows the command prompt. Then I login, and it says welcome, I go to my downloads folder and type sudo sh NVIDIA...256.44.run and it says I need to be in telinit 3, so I get out of the installation and type sudo telinit 3.well that brings me up to a login command so I type my username then it askes for a password, which I also fill in.Now it says incorrect login. So I try again, and it keeps going on, but then I noticed that it puts the first letter of my username infront of Password.And the only way I can get out of that is by Alt + Ctrl + Del to restart, same when I shutdown gdm.
I have created a new script that I am executing at system startup. All was going well until the last step... see below
1. Create script mytestscript.sh
2. Made executable
3. Test script from command line. Works no problem
[code]...
Booting into runlevel 3 and then issuing the $init 5, command leaves me this."binary handler for windows applications already registered" and the system hangs there.I yum removed wine, thinking that might be the issue, but that solved nothing.
View 12 Replies View RelatedI've just formatted by usb drive to vfat, as I heard that is best to use in both Linux and Windows? What do you think?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow well is the ext4 new file system mounting compatibility with the older ext3 previous Linux installations ? I refer to Ubuntu 9.04 and the new Fedora 11 which have the option to install with the ext4 file format. Will it be better if I install with the older ext3, so that I will be able to mount all other Linux from each other in a multi-boot system ?
View 6 Replies View RelatedIn December I finally filled up my root partition and broke Suse 11.1. I therefore resized my partitions and installed Suse 11.3 on /root. I didn't not touch my /home partition.
I notice that when I leave my machine and come back the screen has locked. I have tried to turn off the screensaver, but it hasn't worked. I have Googled, but unfortunately the screen shots don't look like what I have and the instructions to stop this do not seem to match what I am seeing on the screen.
Is there a way to do this via the command line?
I can see this phenomenon on 2 different systems running 11.3 .In simple mode and also in expert mode.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have a problem with my non-powered external UBS HDD.
When i right click it and choose "Remove safely", it vanishes from nautilus and the Places menu, but it continues to have the lights on and spin. I am wondering if it is really safe to remove my hard drives like that or if it is an issue.
How to start in runlevel 3 with grub 2?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have installed 10.04 LTS server and after that x-window-system-core, gnome-core and gdm. Now it boots to a gui in runlevel 2.
1. How can I set the default runlevel to 3?
and
2. boot into runlevel 3 without a gui?
I need to run fsck on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine, but when trying to enter lower runlevel (with init 1), computer freezes with error message "could not write bytes broken pipe". So, how I can fix this and/or check my disk with fsck?
View 1 Replies View RelatedThis post is basically an addendum to my other post located at this link: [URL]... The "new" video problem I'm having is that now I can't get the resolution back to the regular 1200x1600. So what I did is download the latest driver and the previous one to try as well. When I tried to install them it said I can't because I had an X server running. I ran an init 3 to change my run level and then did a >runlevel command, which reported "3 3". I'm assuming that confirms I am in fact running at level 3. I then ran the following command:
>sudo sh ./NVIDIA..yada yada yada (driver info) It tried to install it but said I'm STILL running an X server. What am I missing? Also, I did the init 3 command and confirmed it was "3 3" and then tried to run >startx from the command line. It said "fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0. If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again."
I'm trying to init 3 .. but I can't change te runlevel...I was reading about upstart.. But I can't understand.. :-(ubuntu upstartWhy they don't want to use /etc/inittab..it is so easy...Always I have problems because someone change the way of do things in linux...
View 6 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to stop conky from closing when I click on it? I have a few set up as a system monitor bar on the desktop, and I'd like to anchor them there from accidental clicking so I don't have to restart my script.
View 2 Replies View RelatedOk so I just installed Ubuntu server 9.10. It started out as cmd line only, I ended up installing ubuntu-desktop package from apt ran startx, and from that point on when ever I start the server I get the gui login screen instead of the original cmd line prompt. Now Ive been surfing around the net trying to figure out how to get it back to the original cmd prompt login screen, I really want to use startx when i need a gui.. the main reason I installed this package is really for all the libraries that it contains as i will use a few programs (firestarter, powertweak etc) that use a gui and I figured to make my life simpler i would just install the entire gnome desktop package so i will have everything i need when i try to run these misc programs (most of them will be run thru x11 forwarding as this server will only have internet and power plugged into it) Ive tried disabling gdm startup Ive even removed the /etc/init.d/gdm file all together and it still starts X (i moved it to /usr really but it should(?) work the same as deleting it). there is no other desktop manager to my knowledge (kdm etc).
Ive tried rcconf it says gdm is disabled (i tried disabling it before removing gdm from init.d and nothing), I went thru trying to disable anything that has to do with xserver so far I have only found x11-common I dont think it starts up x but i disabled it anyway. Ive also tried "update-rc.d -f gdm remove" that doesn't do anything either seems no matter what i try i cant stop the gui login screen from popping up.How do i get it to start with the original cmd prompt login?? i am considering reinstalling to get it back but i will lose all my work and that will defeat the purpose
Code:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
This code isnt working. I get "command not found." Does anybody know the correct code?
I've got a laptop with a touchpad. When my cursor is in a text box (ie: this one or abiword or email) and I touch my touchpad with two fingers it automatically pastes whatever is on the "clipboard." How can I make it so when I touch my touchpad with two fingers it does NOT paste any text?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI've got a bit of an intermittent issue with my audio in Ubuntu, which i run into when i'm listening to podcasts. As i'm listening to podcasts in google reader, it will suddenly stop playing. After this happens, nothing in reader will play anymore, and things from ..... will play only video, no audio.
While this is happening, I can play a pod cast in totem movie player in mp3 format. This'll work fine for a while, but eventually the audio will stop, forcing me to push play and then look through the pod cast looking for where it was when it was stopped.
It's pretty annoying having to reboot 2 or 3 times a day to get my sound working in firefox. I have to reopen all my applications and projects every time.
Also, I noticed this line in my /var/log/messages file.
Mar 30 17:10:06 jimbo-desktop pulseaudio[1781]: alsa-mixer.c: Your kernel driver is broken: it reports a volume range from 6.00 dB to 6.00 dB which makes no sense.
I'm just not too sure with the linux audio systems.
When I execute "init 1" not much is happening! The wireless network drops out, but the GUI is still there. It always worked in previous Fedora releases. What is changed now? Does anyone know how to switch between different runlevels in F14?
View 14 Replies View RelatedThis probably has been asked many times, if yes I apologize and please someone point me to the old post.
If my FC14 would not boot. And I didn't setup the boot menu, How do I get into run level 1?
i have no problem ( not yet any more ). but i have a question to the development: who had the mangificent idea to change the philosopy of more than 30 year old runlevels ( 0, 1,2,3,4,5,6 ). now when the system is full up who -r and runlevel gives you can anybody imagine how many scripts which are using commands like "who -r", "runlevel" or parse utmp are give up working. i think a couple of thousends. portability is written in unix with capital letters . please send me a message if you plan to change the runlevel to "S" that i can modify my scripts.
View 8 Replies View Relatedi'm trying to install drivers for an nvidia card.
i was unable to stop X after trying the following:
sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop
sudo service kdm stop
sudo stop kdm
i had ssh'ed in, so there was no point in trying ctrl-alt-f1.there was no /etc/inittab file, so i poked around, and found out that i could simply create one, and enter the following into it:
id:3:initdefault:
which would start the machine in runlevel three (to avoid starting X).that didn't work, since (k)ubuntu apparently ignores the differences between runlevels 2-5.
so i entered the following into my newly created /etc/inittab:
id:1:initdefault:
and restarted the machine.there was no screen output, and i could not ssh into the machine.i took out the new graphics card, and plugged the monitor into the motherboard's vga outlet.still no graphics on the monitor, and i can't ssh.
(and for extra points, how do i get my nvidia card to work?)
how do I stop my Kubuntu to set up an IP ? I tried this:
sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1
but in the following minutes it changes it!how do I stop it?
how do i make it so that all the desktop icons in my xubuntu session are freely movable? right now they are snapping into pre-determined positions (does that make sense?)...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a fresh install of ubuntu 10.04 lucid .... When I went to download some files via firefox, I noticed that the downloads would stop before the download is complete. I tried to download a small 8MB file and it reached almost 4MB then the download simply stopped and firefox incorrectly informed me that the download was finished.. I tried several more downloads after that of various other files and the same thing happens. I have never had trouble downloading files before. I upgraded to firefox 3.6.13 before I noticed this problem so I do not know if it was doing it before I upgraded as this is a fresh ubuntu install.
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